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The City in Slang : New York Life and Popular Speech.
The American urban scene, and in particular New York's, has given us a rich cultural legacy of slang words and phrases, a bonanza of popular speech. Hot dog, rush hour, butter-and-egg man, gold digger, shyster, buttinsky, smart aleck, sidewalk superintendent, yellow journalism, breadline, strap...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press, USA,
1993.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; PART I: Manhattan in the Mirror of Slang; 1: New York City Life and Popular Speech; Slang and Other Popular Speech; The Social Construction of Urban Reality; Talking about the City; The City Seen as Sets of Opposites; Culture and Popular Speech; The City, Mass Communications, and Popular Speech; The Cycle of New York Metropolitan Life; 2: The Social Meaning of City Streets; Public Versus Private Social Worlds; The Urban Jungle; PART II: The Modern Ruptures of Traditional Life; 3: The Bright Lights.
- The City that Never SleepsThe Great White Way; On the Town; "I Wanna Dance!"; Night Spots; Café Society; The Great Black Way; Guys and Dolls; Slumming and Other Rubbernecking; 4: New Ways of Urban Living; Public Transportation; Eating on the Run; The City Inverted at Coney Island; Modern Communications; 5: Tall Buildings; From Tenements to Apartments; The Culture of the Rooftops; The Hotel Life; The Department Stores; The Elevator; Skyscrapers; The Social Meaning of Tall Buildings; The Canyons of the New Metropolis; PART III: The Shadow Worlds of Social Class in City Life; 6: Mean Streets.
- From Skid Road to Skid RowLow Establishments; Joints, Dives, Holes, and Dumps; 7: The Sporting Life; Saloons; Gambling Houses; Dance Halls; Burleycue; Prostitution; PART IV: The Naming of Social Differences; 8: Social Types in City Streets; The Categoric Knowing of Street Types; Shopgirls and Counter jumpers; Well-Dressed Loafers and Libertines; The Street People; Street Vendors and Fakers; Street Advertisers; The Street Children; Street Musicians; Roughs and Toughs; Cops; Cleaning the Streets; 9: Us and them; A View from Bohemia; Epithets for the Truly Rich; Social Climbing.
- From Slum to Ghetto10: The Contempt for Provincial Life; Pejoratives for American Provincials; Names for Rural Areas and Small Towns; And, Then, the Suburbs; Notes; References and Bibliography; Index of Words and Phrases; Author and Subject Index.