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Lexical innovation : a study of slang, colloquialisms and casual speech
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ISBN: 9027225184 9786613359698 1283359693 9027280800 9789027225184 9789027280800 Year: 1981 Volume: 2/5 Publisher: Amsterdam : Benjamins,

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Abstract

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

Actes du XVIIe congrès international de linguistique et philologie romanes d'Aix-en-Provence (29 août - 3 septembre 1983). Volume 7, Contacts de langues discours oral.
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ISBN: 2853991040 2853991059 285399113X 2853991202 2853991288 2853991296 285399130X 2853991377 2853991385 9782853991056 9782853991209 9782853991049 Year: 1985 Publisher: Aix-en-Provence : Marseille : Université de Provence, Jeanne Laffitte,

The vulgar tongue : medieval and postmedieval vernacularity
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ISBN: 0271023104 Year: 2003 Publisher: University Park, PA : Pennsylvania State University Press,

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