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

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Eble, Connie C

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781469610573
1469610574

Other title:

Slang and sociability

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Slang & sociability.DDC classification:

427/.973 22

LOC classification:

PE3727.S8 E255 1996

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18.04

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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. 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 words and phrases discussed in the text, as well as a list of the 40 most enduring terms since 1972.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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. 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 words and phrases discussed in the text, as well as a list of the 40 most enduring terms since 1972.

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