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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

Colloquial language. --- Slang. --- Slang --- Colloquial language --- Lexicology. Semantics --- Sociolinguistics --- Dialectology --- Argot --- Cant --- Obscene words --- Colloquialisms --- Conversational language --- Language and languages --- Speech --- English language Slang --- English language

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This volume provides a detailed analysis of the relationships between form and function in spontaneous spoken language. The contributors analyse English, German and Spanish data to present a multilingual perspective on the complexities facing speakers in a variety of contexts. Through an examination of the language of everyday conversation, interviews, consultations, task-based dialogues, football commentaries, radio-play productions and intercultural conversations, the book demonstrates the effect of informational, discourse-external and personal factors on form and shows how speakers positi

Colloquial language. --- Discourse analysis. --- Pragmatics. --- Pragmalinguistics --- General semantics --- Language and languages --- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical --- Semantics (Philosophy) --- Discourse grammar --- Text grammar --- Semantics --- Semiotics --- Colloquialisms --- Conversational language --- Speech --- Philosophy --- Pragmatics

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An investigation of syntactic structure and organization of discourse in spontaneous spoken language, this book develops a systematic analysis of spoken English, highlighting features common across all languages.

Colloquial language. --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Discourse analysis. --- Typology (Linguistics) --- Language acquisition. --- Colloquial language --- Discourse analysis --- Language acquisition --- Philology & Linguistics --- Languages & Literatures --- Acquisition of language --- Developmental linguistics --- Developmental psycholinguistics --- Language and languages --- Language development in children --- Psycholinguistics, Developmental --- Interpersonal communication in children --- Psycholinguistics --- Discourse grammar --- Text grammar --- Semantics --- Semiotics --- Comparative grammar --- Grammar --- Grammar, Philosophical --- Grammar, Universal --- Philosophical grammar --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Colloquialisms --- Conversational language --- Speech --- Linguistic typology --- Linguistic universals --- Syntax --- Syntax. --- Acquisition --- Grammar, Comparative --- Typology --- Classification --- Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax --- Psycholinguistics. --- Sociolinguistics.