Slang & sociability : in-group language among college students / Connie Eble.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eble, Connie C.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

College students--United States--Language.

College students.

College students--United States--Social life and customs.

English language--United States--Slang.

English language.

Group identity--United States.

Group identity.

Americanisms.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 pages)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Other Title:

Slang and sociability

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Slang & 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

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Definition; 2 Form; 3 Meaning; 4 Borrowing and Allusion; 5 Use; 6 Effects; 7 Culture; Appendix 1. The Top Forty in Slang; Appendix 2. Slang Items with at Least One Synonym; Appendix 3. Some American College Slang circa 1900; Select Glossary of Student Slang; Notes; Works Cited; General Index; Index of Words, Expressions, and Affixes

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9798890875174

9781469610573

1469610574

OCLC:

826853935