Oxford University Press, 2009. — 257 p. ISBN: 978-0-19-531463-2 Slang, writes Michael Adams, is poetry on the down low, and sometimes lowdown poetry on the down low, but rarely, if ever, merely lowdown. It is the poetry of everyday speech, the people's poetry, and it deserves attention as language playing on the cusp of art. In Slang: The People's Poetry, Adams covers this...
Oxford University Press, 1995. — 320 p.
New Yorkers hail a "cab" because of the one-horse, two-wheeled European carriage called a cabriolet. The "flappers" of the 1920s were named after fledgling ducks, and the original "skyscrapers" were mere 16-story buildings. University of Connecticut sociology professor Allen has researched the origin of slang words commonly used today and...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2012. — 161 p. Few areas of human endeavor have produced more-or more colorful-terms than has the military. Soldiers, sailors, marines, and airmen have over centuries come up with words, phrases, and acronyms to express everything from raw emotion to complex technology. The military is both a distinctive way of life and a community, and a command of its...
Slangman Pub, 2003. — 240 p. This humorous book will teach you the most popular dangerous words and expressions used in the English language. The Slangman Guide to DIRTY ENGLISH is easy to understand and fun to read, even for the beginning English learner. It contains over 1,000 dangerous expressions used every day in American conversations. We will even show you which American...
Optima Books, 1993. — 254 p. — ISBN-10 1879440172, ISBN-13 978-1879440173. A guide to colorful slang, idioms, and jargon used in American business. Explains terms used in advertising, negotiations, marketing, computers, and finance, as well as general office terms. Includes quizzes and puzzles as well as a glossary.
Optima Books, 1998. — 300 p. — ISBN-10 1879440199, ISBN-13 978-1879440197. Biz Talk 2 is the second book in the Biz Talk series. It is essential for anyone doing business in the United States! Chapters include: General Business slang and jargon International Trade Slang and Jargon Common Initials Used in International Trade Bureaucratese Political Slang and Jargon Management...
Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed, 2016. — 128 p. A gift-worthy playbook of common and unexpected words and idioms that have their roots in sports and games. There are many metaphors we can quickly identify from the realm of sports: covering all the bases (baseball), game plan (football), and par for the course (golf). But the English language is also peppered with the not-so-obvious...
Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 2016. — 215 p. — ISBN 9781607748113. A gift-worthy playbook of common and unexpected words and idioms that have their roots in sports and games. There are many metaphors we can quickly identify from the realm of sports: covering all the bases (baseball), game plan (football), and par for the course (golf). But the English language is also peppered...
Routledge, 2014. — xi, 242 pages. — ISBN: 978-1-315-85778-7. Global English Slang brings together nineteen key international experts and provides a timely and essential overview of English slang around the world today. The book illustrates the application of a range of different methodologies to the study of slang and demonstrates the interconnection between the different...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 374 p. Engagingly and accessibly written and assumes no background knowledge.Covers the Old English period to 2011, using blogs and tweets to explore contemporary slang. Shows the reader how they can do the same. Includes a word index for the slang terms in the book.
Clarkson Potter, 2021. — 336 p. A landmark reference guide to the LGBTQIA+ community's contributions to the English language--an intersectional, inclusive, playfully illustrated glossary featuring more than 800 terms and fabulous phrases created by and for queer culture. Do you know where "yaaaas queen!" comes from? Do you know the difference between a bear and a wolf? Do you...
London: Serpent's Tail, 2016. — 269 p. Slang is the language of pop culture, low culture, street culture, underground movements and secret societies; depending on your point of view, it is a badge of honour, a sign of identity or a dangerous assault on the values of polite society. Over several centuries and across international borders, VULGAR TONGUES is the story of how the...
Brassey's, Inc., 2003. — 432 р. "War Slang". Paul Dickson, one of the country's leading authorities on American slang, offers the first comprehensive collection of fighting words and wartime phrases Americans have used from the Civil War to the Iraq War. This definitive dictionary, updated and expanded to include the events of September 11 and the war on terrorism, is arranged...
Basserman, 2006. - 160 Pages. ISBN: 3809419826 Ob „5-O’Clock-Tea, „Fish & Chips, oder auch der allseits beliebte Smalltalk über das Londoner Wetter – Englisch ist zweifellos die Weltsprache Nummer 1. Jeder beherrscht sie. Und wenn nicht, kann man zumindest so tun – mit Hilfe dieses amüsanten kleinen Buchs. Was einem bei einem Trip durch das United Kingdom allerdings in...
Peterson's, 2003. — 224 p. — ISBN-10 0768912431.
An essential reference tool for any international student attending college in the U.S., this informative dictionary features the most common slang and idioms used on college campuses across the nation. With its easy-to-use format, conversational tone, and real-world advice from international students, readers will be able to...
Oxford University Press, USA, UK, 2016. — 92 p. — (Very Short Introductions) — ISBN: 0198729537. Slang, however one judges it, shows us at our most human. It is used widely and often, typically associated with the writers of noir fiction, teenagers, and rappers, but also found in the works of Shakespeare and Dickens. It has been recorded since at least 1500 AD, and today's...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 148 p. — (Very Short Introductions) — ISBN 978–0–19–872953–2. Slang, however one judges it, shows us at our most human. It is used widely and often, typically associated with the writers of noir fiction, teenagers, and rappers, but also found in the works of Shakespeare and Dickens. It has been recorded since at least 1500 AD, and today's...
Robinson, 2017. — 94 p. — ISBN10: 1472139666, 13 978-1472139665. Like the flesh-and-blood humans whose uncensored emotions it represents, slang's obsessions are sex, the body and its functions, and intoxication: drink and drugs. Slang does not do kind. It's about hatreds - both intimate and and national - about the insults that follow on, the sneers and the put-downs. Caring,...
Robinson, 2017. — 320 p. — ISBN10: 1472139666, 13 978-1472139665. Like the flesh-and-blood humans whose uncensored emotions it represents, slang's obsessions are sex, the body and its functions, and intoxication: drink and drugs. Slang does not do kind. It's about hatreds - both intimate and and national - about the insults that follow on, the sneers and the put-downs. Caring,...
Robinson, 2017. — 204 p. — ISBN10: 1472139666, 13 978-1472139665. Like the flesh-and-blood humans whose uncensored emotions it represents, slang's obsessions are sex, the body and its functions, and intoxication: drink and drugs. Slang does not do kind. It's about hatreds - both intimate and and national - about the insults that follow on, the sneers and the put-downs. Caring,...
Robinson, 2017. — 204 p. — ISBN10: 1472139666, 13 978-1472139665. Like the flesh-and-blood humans whose uncensored emotions it represents, slang's obsessions are sex, the body and its functions, and intoxication: drink and drugs. Slang does not do kind. It's about hatreds - both intimate and and national - about the insults that follow on, the sneers and the put-downs. Caring,...
Oxford University Press. 2014. 432 pages. ISBN: 0199398143 Once the language of thieves and beggars, slang is an ever present part of today's culture for people across the strata. It allows us to connect to others, to express otherwise guarded thoughts, and to convey humor in the everyday. But how did slang escape its stigma as the language of the streets and integrate itself...
Text Publishing, 2019. — 351 p. — ISBN: 978-1-925773-89-2. In the early 1800s magistrates in the Australian colonies were often frustrated by the language used by reoffending convicts to disguise their criminal activities and intensions. Convict clerk James Hardy Vaux came up with a useful idea: a dictionary of slang and other terms used by convicts. And so, in 1812, he...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012. — 224 p. Jackspeak is a comprehensive reference guide to the humorous and colourful slang of the Senior Service, explaining in layman's terms the otherwise cryptic everyday language of the Royal Navy, the Royal Marines and the Fleet Air Arm. Featuring more than 4,000 alphabetical entries, it was compiled by an ex-RM surgeon who spent 24 years in the...
Издательство Polimetrica, 2008, -325 pp. English Library: the Linguistics Bookshelf, Volume 2. Despite the amount of work that has been carried out to collect English slang data, there has been, to date, no general introductory work that has attempted to synthesize the main points of predictable relevance of slang as a linguistic phenomenon. This book aims to fill the gap. The...
Chambers, 2007. — 384 p. — ISBN10: 0550102868. Pardon My English! looks into some of the shadier recesses of the English language, considering the slang terms used by different professions and sectors of society, the slang used in different countries and different parts of Britain, and the development of slang over the centuries. In doing so, it covers a huge variety of words,...
Espressoenglish, 2014. — 73 p.
It can be frustrating if you have a good level of English, and you can understand newspaper articles and texts … but when you watch TV shows, movies, or listening to English speakers, you are lost when they use slang and idioms that you’ve never heard!
The e-book + MP3 expression organized by topic, many examples of suggestions that allows you to...
Monograph - London: Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd. Slang to-day and yesterday with a short historical sketch; and vocabularies of English, American and Australian slang. Заметка: в начале файла нужно пролистать несколько пустых страниц.
Writer's Digest Books, 2006. - 432 pages. ISBN: 1582974233
Do You Know Your Subculture Slang?
"If your house hasn't been looted yet, it will be, so put everything you can in the bank and make mule characters carry the rest."
"She will act as his beard when his parents come over and at office parties."
"Surely a duck kicker would not disturb ducks this old?"
Do you ever...
Osprey Publishing, 2013. — 358 p. — ISBN10: 1472806433, ISBN13: 978-1472806437. — ASIN B01BY34CU0. Military life has always been ruled by its own language, specific sets of terms and phrases that separate the serving man or woman from their civilian counterpart. There is the official version of ranks and acronyms, and the more unofficial, colloquial language of the barrack room...
Penguin UK, 2016. — 213 p. — ISBN10: 014103856X, 13 978-0141038568. "I have spent almost 33 of the last 53 years in and out of prison, but mainly in. I was a juvenile offender back in the mid 1970s and went on to become an adult prisoner in the 1980s and beyond. My shortest prison sentence was 7 days (for criminal damage) and my longest sentence was life (for bank robbery and...
Princeton University Press, 2017. — 354 p. — ISBN10: 0691169020, ISBN13: 978-0691169026. How vocabularies once associated with outsiders became objects of fascination in eighteenth-century Britain While eighteenth-century efforts to standardize the English language have long been studied-from Samuel Johnson's Dictionary to grammar and elocution books of the period-less...
Princeton University Press, 2017. — 349 p. — ISBN10: 0691169020, ISBN13: 978-0691169026. How vocabularies once associated with outsiders became objects of fascination in eighteenth-century Britain While eighteenth-century efforts to standardize the English language have long been studied-from Samuel Johnson's Dictionary to grammar and elocution books of the period-less...
Ленинградский ордена Ленина и ордена Трудового Красного Знамени государственный университет имени А. А. Жданова. — Ленинград: Издательство Ленинградского университета, 1985. — 136 с. В монографии дается семасиологический и ономасиологический анализ нестандартной лексики британского и американского вариантов английского языка. Она является первым в отечественной англистике...
Москва : АСТ, 2025. — 384 с. : ил. — (Учим иностранный язык с удовольствием с блогерами-экспертами). — ISBN 978-5-17-165452-8. Никаких табу — здесь ты найдешь всё, о чем предпочитали не говорить на уроках английского! Уличный сленг и цифровой андеграунд скрывают куда больше дичи, чем можно себе представить. В этой книге более 1000 слов и выражений, которыми щеголяют в самых...
Москва : АСТ, 2025. — 384 с. : ил. — (Учим иностранный язык с удовольствием с блогерами-экспертами). — ISBN 978-5-17-165452-8. Никаких табу — здесь ты найдешь всё, о чем предпочитали не говорить на уроках английского! Уличный сленг и цифровой андеграунд скрывают куда больше дичи, чем можно себе представить. В этой книге более 1000 слов и выражений, которыми щеголяют в самых...
Москва : АСТ, 2025. — 384 с. : ил. — (Учим иностранный язык с удовольствием с блогерами-экспертами). — ISBN 978-5-17-165452-8. Никаких табу — здесь ты найдешь всё, о чем предпочитали не говорить на уроках английского! Уличный сленг и цифровой андеграунд скрывают куда больше дичи, чем можно себе представить. В этой книге более 1000 слов и выражений, которыми щеголяют в самых...
Москва: АСТ, 2021. — 224 с. — (Научпоп Рунета). Знаете, чем шерсть собаки помогает от похмелья? Какие слова нужны, чтобы обсудить экологические проблемы с ровесниками Греты Тунберг? Что общего между обсуждением крупной сделки и спортивного матча? Эта книга не только познакомит вас с лексикой современных инстаграм-блогеров и героев любимых сериалов, но и поможет разобраться,...
СПб.: Питер, 2004. — 484 с. Эта книга - путеводитель по живой разговорной американской лексике. В неофициальной обстановке используют именно такую речь. Она бывает веселой, смачной, иносказательной, вульгарной и т.д., но никогда - пресной и скучной. Этим не всегда приличным словам в школе не учат, но каждый американец знает их с детства (как и мы - отечественные аналоги). Не...
Научная монография. — Москва: Военный университет Министерства обороны РФ, 2017. — 231 с. — ISBN: 978-5-600-01942-3. В представленном издании изложены теоретические основы социально-психологического феномена стереотипизации в социокультурном контексте языкового коллектива Вооруженных сил США. Центральное место в монографии отведено языковым средствам и речевым формам...
Монография. — Иркутск: ИГЛУ, 2010. — 182 с.
В монографии рассматриваются теоретические и прикладные вопросы английского рифмованного сленга. Представлен проект авторского словаря английского рифмованного сленга.
Монография адресуется научным работникам, специалистам по социолингвистике, социолекталогии, фонетике, лексикологии, лексикографии, стилистике, теории языка, общему...
Монография. — Вологда: Областная типография, 1971. — 103 с. Предисловие Вводные замечания Коллоквиализм: уточнение понятия Общий слэнг: уточнение понятия Специальный слэнг. Кэнт: уточнение понятия Специальный слэнг. Жаргон: уточнение понятия. Слэнг: уточнение понятия. Вульгаризм: уточнение понятия. Вокабуляр просторечия в плане диахронии Заключение Литература Указатель имен
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