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Kiadó | Oxford University Press |
Célcsoport | Mindenki |
Oldalszám | 130 |
Kötés | Fűzött |
Méret (cm) | 11.0x17.4x0.5 |
ISBN | 9780198729532 |
Nyelv | Angol |
Nyelvi szint | C2-anyanyelvi |
Kiadás éve | 2016 |
Sorozat | Very Short Introduction |
least 1500 AD, and today's vocabulary, taken from every major English-speaking country, runs to over 125,000 slang words and phrases.
This Very Short Introduction takes readers on a wide-ranging tour of this fascinating sub-set of the English language. It considers the meaning and origins of the word 'slang' itself, the ideas that a make a word 'slang', the long-running themes that run
through slang, and the history of slang's many dictionaries.