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The City in Slang

Author : Irving Lewis Allen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1995-02-23
ISBN 10 : 0195357760
Pages : 572 pages
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Download The City in Slang book PDF by Irving Lewis Allen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995-02-23 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, straphanger, tar beach, the Tenderloin, the Great White Way, to do a Brodie--these are just a few of the hundreds of popular words and phrases that were born or took on new meaning in the streets of New York. In The City in Slang, Irving Lewis Allen traces this flowering of popular expressions that accompanied the emergence of the New York metropolis from the early nineteenth century down to the present. This unique account of the cultural and social history of America's greatest city provides in effect a lexicon of popular speech about city life. With many stories Allen shows how this vocabulary arose from city streets, often interplaying with vaudeville, radio, movies, comics, and the popular songs of Tin Pan Alley. Some terms of great pertinence to city people today have unexpectedly old pedigrees. Rush hour was coined by 1890, for instance, and rubberneck dates to the late 1890s and became popular in New York to describe the busloads of tourists who craned their necks to see the tall buildings and the sights of the Bowery and Chinatown. The Big Apple itself (since 1971 the official nickname of New York) appeared in the 1920s, though first in reference to the city's top racetracks and to Broadway bookings as pinnacles of professional endeavor. Allen also tells fascinating stories behind once-popular slang that is no longer in use. Spielers, for example, were the little girls in tenement districts who danced ecstatically on the sidewalks to the music of the hurdy-gurdy men and, when they were old enough, frequented the dance halls of the Lower East Side. Following the trail of these words and phrases into the city's East Side, West Side, and all around the town, from Harlem to Wall Street, and into the haunts of its high and low life, The City in Slang is a fascinating look at the rich cultural heritage of language about city life.

The City in Slang

Author : Irving Lewis Allen
Publisher :
Release Date : 1995
ISBN 10 : OCLC:252594695
Pages : 307 pages
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City Slang

Author : Søren Ulrik Thomsen
Publisher : Gyldendal A/S
Release Date : 2018-07-30
ISBN 10 : 9788702205886
Pages : 70 pages
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Download City Slang book PDF by Søren Ulrik Thomsen and published by Gyldendal A/S. This book was released on 2018-07-30 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Digte, især om København, men også andre store europæiske byer og deres puls, sanset og bearbejdet af et åbent sind og en vågen krop. City Slang er Søren Ulrik Thomsens første digtsamling. Den udkom oprindeligt 1981 på forlaget Vindrose.

American English

Author : Zoltan Kovecses
Publisher : Broadview Press
Release Date : 2000-09-26
ISBN 10 : 9781770484283
Pages : 348 pages
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Download American English book PDF by Zoltan Kovecses and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2000-09-26 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a cultural-historical (rather than purely linguistic) introduction to American English. The first part consists of a general account of variation in American English. It offers concise but comprehensive coverage of such topics as the history of American English; regional, social and ethnic variation; variation in style (including slang); and British and American differences. The second part of the book puts forward an account of how American English has developed into a dominant variety of the English language. It focuses on the ways in which intellectual traditions such as puritanism and republicanism, in shaping the American world view, have also contributed to the distinctiveness of American English.

The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical, and Anecdotal

Author : John Camden Hotten
Publisher : London : Chatto and Windus
Release Date : 1874
ISBN 10 : STANFORD:36105004988478
Pages : 400 pages
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The Slang Dictionary

Author : John Camden Hotten
Publisher :
Release Date : 1873
ISBN 10 : BSB:BSB11160028
Pages : 454 pages
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The city

Author : Frederic Carrel
Publisher :
Release Date : 1896
ISBN 10 : PRNC:32101068176187
Pages : 400 pages
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The City in Slang

Author : Irving L. Allen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1993-01
ISBN 10 : 0195075919
Pages : 307 pages
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Download The City in Slang book PDF by Irving L. Allen and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993-01 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the emergence of slang terms in the growing metropolis of New York City, providing a lexicon of urban speech and an account of the social history of New York

Strange Talk

Author : Gavin Jones
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1999-10-19
ISBN 10 : 0520921194
Pages : 346 pages
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Download Strange Talk book PDF by Gavin Jones and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999-10-19 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Late-nineteenth-century America was crazy about dialect: vernacular varieties of American English entertained mass audiences in "local color" stories, in realist novels, and in poems and plays. But dialect was also at the heart of anxious debates about the moral degeneration of urban life, the ethnic impact of foreign immigration, the black presence in white society, and the female influence on masculine authority. Celebrations of the rustic raciness in American vernacular were undercut by fears that dialect was a force of cultural dissolution with the power to contaminate the dominant language. In this volume, Gavin Jones explores the aesthetic politics of this neglected "cult of the vernacular" in little-known regionalists such as George Washington Cable, in the canonical work of Mark Twain, Henry James, Herman Melville, and Stephen Crane, and in the ethnic writing of Abraham Cahan and Paul Laurence Dunbar. He reveals the origins of a trend that deepened in subsequent literature: the use of minority dialect to formulate a political response to racial oppression, and to enrich diverse depictions of a multicultural nation.

A Slow Burning Fire

Author : Marko Ilic
Publisher : MIT Press
Release Date : 2021-02-16
ISBN 10 : 9780262044844
Pages : 384 pages
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Download A Slow Burning Fire book PDF by Marko Ilic and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yugoslavia's diverse and interconnected art scenes from the 1960s to the 1980s, linked to the country's experience with socialist self-management. In Yugoslavia from the late 1960s to the late 1980s, state-supported Student Cultural Centers became incubators for new art. This era's conceptual and performance art--known as Yugoslavia's New Art Practice--emerged from a network of diverse and densely interconnected art scenes that nurtured the early work of Marina Abramovi&ć, Sanja Ivekovi&ć, Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK), and others. In this book, Marko Ili&ć offers the first comprehensive examination of the New Art Practice, linking it to Yugoslavia's experience with socialist self-management and the political upheavals of the 1980s.

Fear in Bongoland

Author : Marc Sommers
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2001-10-01
ISBN 10 : 9781782384700
Pages : 238 pages
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Download Fear in Bongoland book PDF by Marc Sommers and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2001-10-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spurred by wars and a drive to urbanize, Africans are crossing borders and overwhelming cities in unprecedented numbers. At the center of this development are young refugee men who migrate to urban areas. This volume, the first full-length study of urban refugees in hiding, tells the story of Burundi refugee youth who escaped from remote camps in central Tanzania to work in one of Africa's fastest-growing cities, Dar es Salaam. This steamy, rundown capital would seem uninviting to many, particularly for second generation survivors of genocide whose lives are ridden with fear. But these young men nonetheless join migrants in "Bongoland" (meaning "Brainland") where, as the nickname suggests, only the shrewdest and most cunning can survive. Mixing lyrics from church hymns and street vernacular, descriptions of city living in cartoons and popular novels and original photographs, this book creates an ethnographic portrait of urban refugee life, where survival strategies spring from street smarts and pastors' warnings of urban sin, and mastery of popular youth culture is highly valued. Pentecostalism and a secret rift within the seemingly impenetrable Hutu ethnic group are part of the rich texture of this contemporary African story. Written in accessible prose, this book offers an intimate picture of how Africa is changing and how refugee youth are helping to drive that change.

ICCoLLiC 2020

Author : Djatmika
Publisher : European Alliance for Innovation
Release Date : 2020-10-23
ISBN 10 : 9781631902673
Pages : 452 pages
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Download ICCoLLiC 2020 book PDF by Djatmika and published by European Alliance for Innovation. This book was released on 2020-10-23 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ICCoLLIC is an international conference hosted by the English Department, Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Universitas Sebelas Maret. This conference is arranged to become an annual conference making room for scholars and practitioners in the area of communication, language, literature, and culture to share their thoughts, knowledge, and recent researches in the field of study.

Cities Surround The Countryside

Author : Robin Visser
Publisher : Duke University Press
Release Date : 2010-03-22
ISBN 10 : 9780822392774
Pages : 373 pages
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Download Cities Surround The Countryside book PDF by Robin Visser and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-22 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Denounced as parasitical under Chairman Mao and devalued by the norms of traditional Chinese ethics, the city now functions as a site of individual and collective identity in China. Cities envelop the countryside, not only geographically and demographically but also in terms of cultural impact. Robin Visser illuminates the cultural dynamics of three decades of radical urban development in China. Interpreting fiction, cinema, visual art, architecture, and urban design, she analyzes how the aesthetics of the urban environment have shaped the emotions and behavior of people and cultures, and how individual and collective images of and practices in the city have produced urban aesthetics. By relating the built environment to culture, Visser situates postsocialist Chinese urban aesthetics within local and global economic and intellectual trends. In the 1980s, writers, filmmakers, and artists began to probe the contradictions in China’s urbanization policies and rhetoric. Powerful neorealist fiction, cinema, documentaries, paintings, photographs, performances, and installations contrasted forms of glittering urban renewal with the government’s inattention to a livable urban infrastructure. Narratives and images depicting the melancholy urban subject came to illustrate ethical quandaries raised by urban life. Visser relates her analysis of this art to major transformations in urban planning under global neoliberalism, to the development of cultural studies in the Chinese academy, and to ways that specific cities, particularly Beijing and Shanghai, figure in the cultural imagination. Despite the environmental and cultural destruction caused by China’s neoliberal policies, Visser argues for the emergence of a new urban self-awareness, one that offers creative resolutions for the dilemmas of urbanism through new forms of intellectual engagement in society and nascent forms of civic governance.

The City in American Literature and Culture

Author : Kevin R. McNamara
Publisher :
Release Date : 2021-08-05
ISBN 10 : 9781108841962
Pages : 417 pages
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Download The City in American Literature and Culture book PDF by Kevin R. McNamara and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-05 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines what literature and film reveal about the urban USA. Subjects include culture, class, race, crime, and disaster.

Zubi!

Author : Danny Ben Israel
Publisher : Penguin
Release Date : 2011-02-22
ISBN 10 : 9781101501726
Pages : 160 pages
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Download Zubi! book PDF by Danny Ben Israel and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-02-22 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to talk dirty and influence people—in Hebrew! You can study Hebrew for years, but do you really know how to talk like a native speaker? The next book in Plume's foreign language series, Zubi! will make sure you learn all the colorful vernacular words and phrases for a variety of situations,including insulting your neighbor,flirting with the hot guy or girl at the club, and even chatting online-not to mention plenty of Hebrew words that are...well, best not to mention. Accessible and useful to complete novices, intermediate students of Hebrew, or just anyone who enjoys cursing in other languages, this irreverent guide is packed with hilarious examples and stories to acquaint the reader not only with popular terms but how they are used in everyday speech. With clever illustrations, Zubi! covers it all-from essential basics to the hottest new slang-and proves that no language is too sacred.

Names

Author :
Publisher :
Release Date : 1993
ISBN 10 : UCAL:B4965606
Pages : 388 pages
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Download Names book PDF by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journal of the American Name Society.

A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, And, Vulgar Words

Author : John C. Hotten
Publisher :
Release Date : 1860
ISBN 10 : BSB:BSB10589387
Pages : 324 pages
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