Green notes that “the line between slang and colloquialism, the casual language of everyday speech, is simply too close to drawn with any facility”. In addition to “slang”, there are in English a number of partially overlapping terms: “argot”, “cant”, “colloquial”, “dialect”, “demotic speech”, “flash language”, “jargon”, “vernacular”, “swearing”, etc Above all it is the language of the city – urgent, pointed, witty, cruel, and capable both of excluding and including, of mocking and confirming”. The language of the rebel, the outlaw, the despised, the marginal, the young. A jackanapes lexicon of the dispossessed. Jonathan Green defines the scope of his dictionary “Landmark Dictionary of Slang (1998)” as follows: One possible criterion for defining slang might well be that it cannot be “written down” in standard Chinese, though of course this approach, while useful in some contexts, also begs many questions, not least the definition of “standard Chinese”. “Slang” refers to a wide range of vernacular speech styles, notably the language of the underworld (a major source of innovation in late 20th-21st century speech), of teenagers, and movies and comics.Īnyone who compiles a list of slang is faced continually with the question of « What is slang?” Contains 10.Home Chinese Culture Chinese Language Chinese Riddles and Slang.Covers 500 years of slang from right across the English-speaking world and from all walks of life.Meticulously researched and thoroughly authenticated, with all words, phrases and meanings backed by citations from a myriad of original sources The three volumes of Greens Dictionary of Slang demonstrate the sheer scope of a lifetime of research by Jonathon Green, the leading slang lexicographer of.The magnum opus from the English-speaking world’s leading slang lexicographer, Jonathon Green.Quite simply, it is the most authoritative and comprehensive record of slang ever to be made available. Green’s Dictionary of Slang is a groundbreaking work. Every word and phrase is authenticated by genuine and fully-referenced citations of its use, giving the work a level of authority and scholarship unmatched by any other publication in this field. A remarkable collection of this often reviled but endlessly fascinating area of the English language, it covers slang from the past five centuries right up to the present day, from all the different English-speaking countries and regions. This three-volume set of Green’s Dictionary of Slang demonstrate the sheer scope of a lifetime of research by Jonathon Green, the leading slang lexicographer of our time. ‘The reference work of the vulgar tongue to which all others must now be referred English slang in more detail than any lexicographer before him’ The Telegraph The greatest survey of slang ever published – winner of the 2012 Dartmouth Medal.
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