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SLANG BIBLIOGRAPHY

The following is a select list of references that may be a useful starting-point for learners, researchers or others interested in investigating slang.

Adams, M. (2009) Slang: The People’s Poetry, Oxford: Oxford University Press

Ayto, J. (1998) The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang, Oxford: Oxford University Press

Bucholtz, M. (1999) ‘ “Why be normal?”: language and identity practices in a community of nerd girls’ in Language in Society 28: 203-223

Bucholtz, M. (2001) Word Up: Social Meanings of Slang in California Youth Culture

Chapman, R.L, ed. (1986) New Dictionary of American Slang, New York: Harper and Row

Cheshire, J. and Kerswill, P. (2004) Linguistic innovators: the English of adolescents in London. ESRC Research Grant ref RES-000-23-0680, 2004 -2007.

Coleman, J. (2012) The Life of Slang, Oxford: Oxford University Press

Dalzell, T. and Victor, T. (2006) The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, London: Routledge

Damaso, J. and Cotter, C. (2007) ‘’ in English Today 23, 02: 19-26

Dumas, B.K., and Lighter, J. (1978) Is Slang a word for linguists? American Speech 53: 5-17

Eble, C. (1985) Slang: variations in dictionary labeling practices. In The Eleventh LACUS Forum, 1984, ed. Robert A. Hall Jr., 294 -302. Columbia, SC: Hornbeam Press

Eble, C. (1996) Slang and Sociability: In-Group Language among College Students, Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press

Eckert, P. (1989) Jocks and Burnouts: Social Categories and Identity in High School. New York: Teachers College Press

Gotti, M. (2002) ‘The origin of seventeenth century canting terms’ in A changing World of Words: Studies in English Historical Lexicography, Lexicology and Semantics. Amsterdam-New York: Rodopi. 165-196

Green, J. (1997) Chasing the Sun, London: Pimlico

Green, J. (2010) Green’s Dictionary of Slang, London: Chambers

Halliday, M.A.K. (1978) Language as Social Semiotic. London: Edward Arnold

Labov, T. (1982), ‘Social structure and peer terminology in a black adolescent gang’, in Language and Society 2, 391 – 411

Mattiello, E. (2008) An Introduction to English Slang: A description of its Morphology, Semantics and Sociology, Monza: Polimetrica

Partridge, E. (1933) Slang Today and Yesterday, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul

Sornig, K. (1981) Lexical Innovation: a Study of Slang, Colloquialisms and Casual Speech, Amsterdam: John Benjamins

Stenström, A-B., Andersen, G. and Hasund, I.K. (2002) Trends in Teenage Talk: corpus compilation, analysis and findings. Amsterdam: John Benjamins

Thorne, T. (2014) Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, (4th edition), London: Bloomsbury

Thorne, T. (2009) ‘Slang’, in Routledge Linguistics Encyclopedia: 3rd Edition, London: Routledge

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