Includes bibliographical references )pages 401-407( and index
Machine generated contents note: -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: Slang: A User's Manual -- 2. In the Beginning: The Prehistory -- 3. Lewd, Lousey Language: Beggars and Their Books -- 4. Crime and Punishment -- 5. Play's the Thing -- 6. The Sound of the City -- 7. Flash: This Sporting Life -- 8. Down Under -- 9. Sex in the City -- 01. Cockney Sparrers -- 11. America: Pioneers -- 21. Keeping Score: Nineteenth-century Slang Lexicography -- 31. Gayspeak -- 41. American Century -- 51. African-American Slang: The Flesh Made Word -- 61. Campus and Counter-Culture -- 71. War -- 81. Conclusion: As It Was in the Beginning -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgements -- Index
Slang History ، English language
، LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General
، LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies
، LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Etymology