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Slang Across Societies: Motivations and Construction

Call no.: : 417.2 DAV
Author: : Jim Davie
Contributor: : Fezzanne Anak Raymond Umpu
Summary: Davie’s work is the first to explore in such fascinating detail the processes of word creation in highly colloquial language, comparing in the structural, functional and social elements of slang across a number of languages. Slang Across Societies is an introductory reference work and textbook which aims to acquaint readers with key themes in the tudy of youth, criminal and colloquial language practices. This book focusing on key questions such as speaker identity and motivations, perceptions of use and users, language variation, and attendant linguistic manipulations, the book identifies and discusses more than 20 in group and colloquial varieties from no fewer than 16 different societies worldwide.