Author: Clarence Major
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780710071798
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 127

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Author: Maciej Widawski
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107074177
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 313

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A pioneering exploration of form, meaning, theme and function in African American slang, illustrated with thousands of contextual examples.

Author: John H. McWhorter
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781942658207
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 190

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An authoritative, impassioned celebration of Black English, how it works, and why it matters

Author: Clarence Major
Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul Books
ISBN: 9780710071781
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 127

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Author: Clarence Major
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 136

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Author: Jonathon Green
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9780304366361
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1600

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With its unparalleled coverage of English slang of all types (from 18th-century cant to contemporary gay slang), and its uncluttered editorial apparatus, Cassell's Dictionary of Slang was warmly received when its first edition appeared in 1998. 'Brilliant.' said Mark Lawson on BBC2's The Late Review; 'This is a terrific piece of work - learned, entertaining, funny, stimulating' said Jonathan Meades in The Evening Standard.But now the world's best single-volume dictionary of English slang is about to get even better. Jonathon Green has spent the last seven years on a vast project: to research in depth the English slang vocabulary and to hunt down and record written instances of the use of as many slang words as possible. This has entailed trawling through more than 4000 books - plus song lyrics, TV and movie scripts, and many newspapers and magazines - for relevant material. The research has thrown up some fascinating results

Author: Geneva Smitherman
Publisher: Mariner Books
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 266

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Fully revised and updated -- the ultimate guide to black talk from all segments of the African American community.Do you want to be down with the latest hype terms from the Hip Hop world? Black Talk is the perfect source. "Even if you think you're hip, you'd better look up kitchen, got her nose open, jump salty, and hundreds of other sayings, former or current, that testify to the linguistic originality of Black speakers," said Frederic G. Cassidy, chief editor of the Dictionary of American Regional English. This new edition of Black Talk includes more than 300 new words and phrases and, now more than ever, reflects the ever-changing meanings and uses of this vital and rich part of our language. In a style that is always informative and always entertaining, Geneva Smitherman takes this dictionary far beyond a list of words. Black Talk is a cultural map that charts word meanings along the highways and byways of African American life.

Author: Daniel B. Schwartz
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674737539
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289

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Few words are as ideologically charged as “ghetto,” a term that has described legally segregated Jewish quarters, dense immigrant enclaves, Nazi holding pens, and black neighborhoods in the United States. Daniel B. Schwartz reveals how the history of ghettos is tied up with struggle and argument over the slippery meaning of a word.

Author: Clarence Major
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 600

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Offers a collection of African American slang terms with definitions.

Author: Joseph Melillo
Publisher: Mottobene Inc
ISBN: 1594040176
Category : Americanisms
Languages : en
Pages : 385

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This compilation of American slang contains more than 5,000 common slang terms with easy-to-understand definitions and sample sentences. The book's unique classification of slang terms under key words makes it easy to search for and discover any term. By organising terms this way, slang terms that share a common key word can be classified together for easy reference. For example, under the key word 'Chip,' the following terms are alphabetically listed: bargaining chip, blue chip, cash in one's chips, chip in, chip off the old block, chip on one's shoulder, in the chips, let the chips fall where they may, and when the chips are down. Slang terms with more than one key word are also cross-referenced, and sample sentences lend meaning to the slang terms by showing their applications in writing and in conversation.