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Lexical innovation : a study of slang, colloquialisms, and casual speech /
In addition to borrowing from various foreign sources, the main origins of slang terms are the activation and revitalization of existing morphological and lexical material. Metaphorical manipulation of lexical items, as the main device used for the production of slangisms, shows remarkable similarit...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Benjamins,
1981.
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| Colección: | Pragmatics & beyond ;
II:5. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In addition to borrowing from various foreign sources, the main origins of slang terms are the activation and revitalization of existing morphological and lexical material. Metaphorical manipulation of lexical items, as the main device used for the production of slangisms, shows remarkable similarities in languages otherwise quite different from each other. Slang is analyzed as a kind of substandard language variation which any full-fledged language is bound to develop because it is experimental in that it is born from insubordination and protest against the stress experienced in the speech co. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vii, 117 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 103-117). |
| ISBN: | 9789027280800 9027280800 9027225184 9789027225184 |
| ISSN: | 0166-6258 ; |