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Chargement... Language!: Five Hundred Years of the Vulgar Tongue (original 2014; édition 2014)par Jonathon Green (Auteur)
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Once the language of thieves and beggars, slang is an ever present part of today''s culture for people across the strata. It allows us to connect to others, to express otherwise guarded thoughts, and to convey humor in the everyday. But how did slang escape its stigma as the language of the streets and integrate itself so seamlessly with ""standard English?"" The Vulgar Tongue tells the full story of English language slang, from its origins in early British beggar books to its spread in American and Australian culture in the eighteenth century. The aim is not to record the history of the over Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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