A Concise Collection Of College Students Slang

Author : Xin-An Lu
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2004-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0595324487

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A Concise Collection of College Students' Slang by Xin-An Lu Pdf

Language is a passport to a culture. Slang, probably the most lively part of a language, is especially so. Understanding of a culture's slang is a great lens through which to know the authentic life of the members in that culture. Slang can also serve to spice up conversations with these members. In this light, a collection is made of undergraduate college students' slang--by college students themselves. For authenticity, more attention is given to comprehensiveness than to political correctness, although racist terms are avoided. This concise collection promises to give you a better understanding of and a closer connection with undergraduate college students.

Author : Xin-An Lu
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2004-07-25
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780595772421

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A Concise Collection of College Students' Slang by Xin-An Lu Pdf

Language is a passport to a culture. Slang, probably the most lively part of a language, is especially so. Understanding of a culture's slang is a great lens through which to know the authentic life of the members in that culture. Slang can also serve to spice up conversations with these members. In this light, a collection is made of undergraduate college students' slang-by college students themselves. For authenticity, more attention is given to comprehensiveness than to political correctness, although racist terms are avoided. This concise collection promises to give you a better understanding of and a closer connection with undergraduate college students.

Author : Simon J. Bronner
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781617036163

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Campus Traditions by Simon J. Bronner Pdf

How American campus life shapes students, and how students shape campus lore

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Slang
ISBN : OCLC:463002999

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A Collection of College Words and Customs by Anonim Pdf

Author : Connie Eble
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781469610573

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Slang and Sociability by Connie Eble Pdf

Slang is often seen as a lesser form of language, one that is simply not as meaningful or important as its 'regular' counterpart. Connie Eble refutes this notion as she reveals the sources, poetry, symbolism, and subtlety of informal slang expressions. In Slang and Sociability, Eble explores the words and phrases that American college students use casually among themselves. Based on more than 10,000 examples submitted by Eble's students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill over the last twenty years, the book shows that slang is dynamic vocabulary that cannot be dismissed as deviant or marginal. Like more formal words and phrases, slang is created, modified, and transmitted by its users to serve their own purposes. In the case of college students, these purposes include cementing group identity and opposing authority. The book includes a glossary of the more than 1,000 slang words and phrases discussed in the text, as well as a list of the 40 most enduring terms since 1972. Examples from the glossary: group gropes -- encounter groups squirrel kisser -- environmentalist Goth -- student who dresses in black and listens to avant-garde music bad bongos -- situation in which things do not go well triangle -- person who is stupid or not up on the latest za -- pizza smoke -- to perform well dead soldier -- empty beer container toast -- in big trouble, the victim of misfortune parental units -- parents

Author : Connie C. Eble
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Americanisms
ISBN : 0930753097

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College Slang 101 by Connie C. Eble Pdf

One of the most extensive collections of college slang words ever published. Compiled by a foremost linguist, the listings are supported by analysis and explanations giving derivation and use of words and phrases. Used as a text book in college linguistic classes. Illustrated with amusing expressive cartoons.

Author : Timothy B. Jay
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9798216163794

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We Did What?! by Timothy B. Jay Pdf

This provocative guide profiles behaviors considered shocking throughout American history, revealing the extent of changing social mores and cultural perceptions of appropriate conduct since the Colonial period. The notion of what is offensive has evolved over time. But what factors dictate decorum and why does it change? This fascinating work delves into the history of "inappropriate" behavior in the United States, providing an in-depth look at what has been considered improper conduct throughout American history—and how it came to be deemed as such. The detailed narrative considers the impact of religion, sexuality, popular culture, technology, and politics on social graces, and it features more than 150 entries on topics considered taboo in American cultural history. Organized alphabetically, topics include abortion, body odors, cannibalism, and voyeurism as well as modern-day examples like dumpster diving, breast feeding in public, and trolling. Each entry defines the behavior in question, provides an historical outline of the offensive behavior, and discusses its current status in American culture. Throughout the book, clear connections between offenses and social values illustrate the symbiotic relationship between popular opinion and acceptable behaviors of the time.

Author : Thomas Burns McArthur,Roshan McArthur
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 1054 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : English philology
ISBN : 9780192806376

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Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language by Thomas Burns McArthur,Roshan McArthur Pdf

From Sanskrit to Scouse, this book provides a single-volume source of information about the English language. The guide is intended both for reference and and for browsing. The international perspective takes in language from Cockney to Creole, Aboriginal English to Zummerzet, Estuary English to Caribbean English and a historical range from Beowulf to Ebonics, Chaucer to Chomsky, Latin to the World Wide Web. There is coverage of a wide range of topics from abbreviation to Zeugma, Shakespeare to split infinitive and substantial entries on key subjects such as African English, etymology, imperialism, pidgin, poetry, psycholinguistics and slang. Box features include pieces on place-names, the evolution of the alphabet, the story of OK, borrowings into English, and the Internet. Invaluable reference for English Language students, and fascinating reading for the general reader with an interest in language.

Author : Julie Coleman
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191563584

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A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries by Julie Coleman Pdf

This book continues Julie Coleman's acclaimed history of dictionaries of English slang and cant. It describes the increasingly systematic and scholarly way in which such terms were recorded and classified in the UK, the USA, Australia, and elsewhere, and the huge growth in the publication of and public appetite for dictionaries, glossaries, and guides to the distinctive vocabularies of different social groups, classes, districts, regions, and nations. Dr Coleman describes the origins of words and phrases and explores their history. By copious example she shows how they cast light on everyday life across the globe - from settlers in Canada and Australia and cockneys in London to gang-members in New York and soldiers fighting in the Boer and First World Wars - as well as on the operations of the narcotics trade and the entertainment business and the lives of those attending American colleges and British public schools. The slang lexicographers were a colourful bunch. Those featured in this book include spiritualists, aristocrats, socialists, journalists, psychiatrists, school-boys, criminals, hoboes, police officers, and a serial bigamist. One provided the inspiration for Robert Lewis Stevenson's Long John Silver. Another was allegedly killed by a pork pie. Julie Coleman's account will interest historians of language, crime, poverty, sexuality, and the criminal underworld.

Author : Chaise LaDousa
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780253223265

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House Signs and Collegiate Fun by Chaise LaDousa Pdf

It's no secret that fun is important to American college students, but it is unusual for scholars to pay attention to how undergraduates represent and reflect on their partying. Linguist and anthropologist Chaise LaDousa explores the visual manifestations of collegiate fun in a Midwestern college town where house signs on off-campus student residences are a focal point of college culture. With names like Boot 'N Rally, The Plantation, and Crib of the Rib, house signs reproduce consequential categories of gender, sexuality, race, and faith in a medium students say is benign. Through his analysis of house signs and what students say about them, LaDousa introduces the reader to key concepts and approaches in cultural analysis.

Author : Katherine O. Acheson
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781770487987

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Writing Essays About Literature: A Brief Guide for University and College Students - Second Edition by Katherine O. Acheson Pdf

This book gives students an answer to the question, “What does my professor want from this essay?” Using a single poem by William Carlos Williams as the basis for the process of writing a paper, it walks students through the processes of reading, brainstorming, researching secondary sources, gathering evidence, and composing and editing the paper. Writing Essays About Literature is designed to strengthen argumentation skills and deepen understanding of the relationships between the reader, the author, the text, and critical interpretations. Its lessons about clarity, precision, and the importance of providing evidence will have wide relevance for student writers. The second edition has been updated throughout and provides three new complete sample essays showing varying approaches to the final essay.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Philology, Modern
ISBN : UIUC:30112067866464

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MLN. by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anna Belladelli,Roberto Cagliero
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443849036

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American English(es) by Anna Belladelli,Roberto Cagliero Pdf

American English(es) focuses on the manifold nature of a macro-regional variety of English which is better described in the plural form, thus enhancing the endless contribution of most diverse ethnic groups, such as those kidnapped from Africa to be employed as slaves, survivors of native American tribes systematically exterminated in the past, and, later on, European Jews escaping from pogroms, Europeans and Asians escaping from poverty, and, more recently, Central and South Americans, mostly Spanish speakers, emigrating to the USA in search of supposedly better living conditions. By tackling the notions of “minority”, “variety”, and “dialect”, this book singles out three language-related phenomena which are currently relevant to the academic and cultural debate concerning US society, namely the obsolescent representation of minority vs hegemonic varieties of English, the latest developments of the Spanish vs English controversy, and the increasing exposure of slang in public contexts. The multiple points of view on American Englishes, offered by the essays included in the present volume, draw on diverse and often contrasting approaches, ranging from corpus linguistics to cultural studies, from lexicography/lexicology to discourse analysis.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Philology, Modern
ISBN : UCR:31210021832405

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Modern Language Notes by Anonim Pdf

Author : Benjamin Homer Hall
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1290548803

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A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall Pdf

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.