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Slang. The ultimate in man-made languages. Two thousand words for woman and every one a put-down. Thus the story, now and for several hundred years. But stories are just that and perhaps there's an alternative.
In this book Jonathon Green, the leading collector of English-language slang, asks whether women have another role to play. As slang's active, positive, rebellious subject, rather than its endlessly derided, submissive object.
Sounds & Furies represents a quest to overturn a long-established, but far from invulnerable belief system. To show that throughout a recorded history that starts with Chaucer's bawdy, mouthy and magnificently self-willed Wife of Bath and carries on through a cast of working girls and villainesses, playwrights and bestselling authors, shopgirls and fishwives and through to the modern, online worlds of Mumsnet and Tinder, women have always made slang their own.
'From fishwives to flappers and from music-hall performers to Mumsnetters, women have indeed made contributions to the slang vocabulary of English; by bringing together so much fascinating material about their words and their worlds, this book makes its own contribution to the history of both women and language.'
Professor Deborah Cameron, Professor of Language and Communication, Worcester College, University of Oxford
Slang. The ultimate in man-made languages. Two thousand words for woman and every one a put-down. Thus the story, now and for several hundred years. But stories are just that and perhaps there's an alternative.
In this book Jonathon Green, the leading collector of English-language slang, asks whether women have another role to play. As slang's active, positive, rebellious subject, rather than its endlessly derided, submissive object.
Sounds & Furies represents a quest to overturn a long-established, but far from invulnerable belief system. To show that throughout a recorded history that starts with Chaucer's bawdy, mouthy and magnificently self-willed Wife of Bath and carries on through a cast of working girls and villainesses, playwrights and bestselling authors, shopgirls and fishwives and through to the modern, online worlds of Mumsnet and Tinder, women have always made slang their own.
'From fishwives to flappers and from music-hall performers to Mumsnetters, women have indeed made contributions to the slang vocabulary of English; by bringing together so much fascinating material about their words and their worlds, this book makes its own contribution to the history of both women and language.'
Professor Deborah Cameron, Professor of Language and Communication, Worcester College, University of Oxford
JONATHON GREEN, known as 'Mr Slang', is the world's leading lexicographer of dictionaries of anglophone slang. His first dictionary appeared in 1984 and since then he has written and broadcast widely on the subject. The Cassell Dictionary of Slang appeared in 1998, the Chambers Dictionary of Slang in 2008 and the three-volume Green's Dictionary of Slang in 2010. The material, which deals with the slang of every English-speaking country, dates from approximately 1400 and continues as far as possible to the present day. As of 2016, this has been available online and is expanded and revised in quarterly updates. At present it offers approximately 140,000 slang words and phrases, underpinned by around 635,000 citations or illustrative examples.
Green has also written a history of lexicography (Chasing the Sun: Dictionary-Makers and the Dictionary They Made, 1996), a history of slang (Language! 500 Years of the Vulgar Tongue, 2014) and a 'lexico-biography' (Odd Job Man, 2014). Other slang-related titles include The Slang Thesaurus (1988), Slang Down the Ages (1993), Getting Off at Gateshead (2008), Crooked Talk (2016) and The Stories of Slang (2016). His ongoing collection of The Timelines of Slang (the chronological ordering of the slang vocabularies of the counter-language's favourite topics) is available online.
Online links:
Green's Dictionary of Slang: [...]
The Timelines of Slang: the timelines of slang.[...]
Website: jonathongreen.co.uk
Twitter: [...]
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2019 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Allg. & vergl. Sprachwissenschaft |
| Rubrik: | Sprachwissenschaft |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Seiten: | 576 |
| Inhalt: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| ISBN-13: | 9781472141927 |
| ISBN-10: | 147214192X |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Green, Jonathon |
| Hersteller: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Maße: | 233 x 152 x 45 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Jonathon Green |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 07.11.2019 |
| Gewicht: | 0,708 kg |
JONATHON GREEN, known as 'Mr Slang', is the world's leading lexicographer of dictionaries of anglophone slang. His first dictionary appeared in 1984 and since then he has written and broadcast widely on the subject. The Cassell Dictionary of Slang appeared in 1998, the Chambers Dictionary of Slang in 2008 and the three-volume Green's Dictionary of Slang in 2010. The material, which deals with the slang of every English-speaking country, dates from approximately 1400 and continues as far as possible to the present day. As of 2016, this has been available online and is expanded and revised in quarterly updates. At present it offers approximately 140,000 slang words and phrases, underpinned by around 635,000 citations or illustrative examples.
Green has also written a history of lexicography (Chasing the Sun: Dictionary-Makers and the Dictionary They Made, 1996), a history of slang (Language! 500 Years of the Vulgar Tongue, 2014) and a 'lexico-biography' (Odd Job Man, 2014). Other slang-related titles include The Slang Thesaurus (1988), Slang Down the Ages (1993), Getting Off at Gateshead (2008), Crooked Talk (2016) and The Stories of Slang (2016). His ongoing collection of The Timelines of Slang (the chronological ordering of the slang vocabularies of the counter-language's favourite topics) is available online.
Online links:
Green's Dictionary of Slang: [...]
The Timelines of Slang: the timelines of slang.[...]
Website: jonathongreen.co.uk
Twitter: [...]
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2019 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Allg. & vergl. Sprachwissenschaft |
| Rubrik: | Sprachwissenschaft |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Seiten: | 576 |
| Inhalt: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| ISBN-13: | 9781472141927 |
| ISBN-10: | 147214192X |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Green, Jonathon |
| Hersteller: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Maße: | 233 x 152 x 45 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Jonathon Green |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 07.11.2019 |
| Gewicht: | 0,708 kg |
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