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George Orwell coined the term 'Newspeak' for his novel 1984, the
purpose of which was designed to shrink vocabularies and eliminate
subtlety and nuance. For this dictionary, first published to herald
the year 1984, Jonathon Green compiled nearly 8, 000 entries -
selected from the slangs and specific vocabularies of trades,
professions and interests - covering such areas as the world of
entertainment, the media, the military economics, and finance. This
dictionary provides an accurate and useful linguistic guide for
students of lexicography and an interesting compendium for the
general inquisitive reader.
First published in 1987, the Dictionary of Jargon expands on its
predecessor Newspeak (Routledge Revivals, 2014) as an authoritative
reference guide to specialist occupational slang, or jargon.
Containing around 21, 000 entries, the dictionary encompasses a
truly eclectic range of fields and includes extensive coverage of
both British and U.S. jargon. Areas dealt with range from marketing
to medicine, from advertising to artificial intelligence and from
skiing to sociology. This is a fascinating resource for students of
lexicography and professional lexicographers, as well as the
general inquisitive reader.
First published in 1986, the purpose of this dictionary is to
clarify the technology behind nuclear jargon. The entries deal with
all areas of nuclear warfare: its strategies and tactics, personnel
and weapons systems, arms control and disarmament talks. The
terminology of the nuclear age expands and changes as fast as the
weapons and strategies it describes; the dictionary therefore
covers a span ranging from the first tentative post-Hiroshima ideas
and systems through to the near-fictions of the 'Star Wars'
initiative. This fascinating reissue will be of particular value to
those in need of a comprehensive guide to the vocabulary of nuclear
warfare, as well as students of linguistics with a particular
interest in slang and jargon.
George Orwell coined the term 'Newspeak' for his novel 1984, the
purpose of which was designed to shrink vocabularies and eliminate
subtlety and nuance. For this dictionary, first published to herald
the year 1984, Jonathon Green compiled nearly 8, 000 entries -
selected from the slangs and specific vocabularies of trades,
professions and interests - covering such areas as the world of
entertainment, the media, the military economics, and finance. This
dictionary provides an accurate and useful linguistic guide for
students of lexicography and an interesting compendium for the
general inquisitive reader.
First published in 1987, the Dictionary of Jargon expands on its
predecessor Newspeak (Routledge Revivals, 2014) as an authoritative
reference guide to specialist occupational slang, or jargon.
Containing around 21, 000 entries, the dictionary encompasses a
truly eclectic range of fields and includes extensive coverage of
both British and U.S. jargon. Areas dealt with range from marketing
to medicine, from advertising to artificial intelligence and from
skiing to sociology. This is a fascinating resource for students of
lexicography and professional lexicographers, as well as the
general inquisitive reader.
First published in 1986, the purpose of this dictionary is to
clarify the technology behind nuclear jargon. The entries deal with
all areas of nuclear warfare: its strategies and tactics, personnel
and weapons systems, arms control and disarmament talks. The
terminology of the nuclear age expands and changes as fast as the
weapon and strategies it describes; the dictionary therefore covers
a span ranging from the first tentative post-Hiroshima ideas and
systems through to the near-fictions of the 'Star Wars' initiative.
'When it comes to distaff dirtiness, mainstream males such as
Dickens and Dekker make easy pickings, but Green finds the greatest
treasures when he mudlarks on the margins. In Sounds & Furies,
he has dredged up some gems.' Emma Byrne, Spectator 'From fishwives
to flappers and from music hall performers to Mumsnetters, women
have indeed made contributions to the slang vocabulary of English;
by bringing together so much fascinating material about their words
and their worlds, this book makes its own contribution to the
history of both women and language.' Professor Deborah Cameron,
Professor of Language and Communication, Worcester College,
University of Oxford 'Green comprehensively disproves that slang is
inherently masculine. Mumsnetters and bulldaggers, flappers and
slappers, shicksters and hash-slingers all put in their claims as
slang-users in their own right in this entertaining and
thought-provoking book. Any writer venturing into the contentious
area of women as users, creators or objects of slang from now on
will look to Green for guidance or for arguments.' Julie Coleman,
author of The Life of Slang Slang. The ultimate in man-made
languages. The male gaze made verbal. A world where words for
intercourse mean 'man hits woman', the penis is a gun, a knife or
club and the vagina a terrifying tunnel. Possibly with teeth. Two
thousand words for woman and every one a put-down. Even 'mother' is
simply short for the grossest of obscenities. Thus the story, now
and for several hundred years. But stories are just that and
perhaps there's an alternative. In this book Jonathon Green, the
leading collector of English-language slang and drawing on forty
years of research in the field, asks whether women have another
role to play. As slang's active, positive, rebellious subject,
rather than its endlessly derided, submissive object. Sounds &
Furies represents a quest to overturn a long-established, but far
from invulnerable belief system. To show that throughout a recorded
history that starts with Chaucer's bawdy, mouthy and magnificently
self-willed Wife of Bath and carries on through a cast of working
girls and villainesses, playwrights and bestselling authors,
shop-girls and fish-wives and through to the modern, on-line worlds
of Mumsnet and Tinder, women have always made slang their own. If
slang has always been the language of the margins, then women, for
all their numbers, have also been consigned to the margins. Those
days, it is ever more clear, are over. If slang has a role then it
is to represent us at our most human. That may not mean 'admirable'
but it surely means 'true'. And humanity is on offer to everyone,
whatever gender they may claim. That goes for language, whatever
its variety, too. From the foreword by sex historian Kate Lister:
'Patriarchal cultures have understood women, controlled women, and
marginalised women. But, this book also reveals that it is the
rebellious women who used slang: the fishwives, the scolds, the
whores, and the harridans. Long may they continue to do so.'
'If you're up for an adventure through the back alleys of English,
The Stories of Slang will not disappoint.' Kory Stamper, Times
Literary Supplement 'Few lexicographers are lucky enough to have
both endlessly pleasurable work and the talent to write amusingly
about [slang]. Jonathon Green is one . . . Lovers of language
should be grateful to those who create slang, and to those few like
Mr Green who make it their work to open this window into the psyche
for the benefit of all.' - The Economist 'By turns bawdy, sweary
and irreverent, this book . . . is a fascinating look at how
centuries of slang came to inform all aspects of social life, how
it was used, and how much of it still lingers.' History Revealed
Like the flesh-and-blood humans whose uncensored emotions it
represents, slang's obsessions are sex, the body and its functions,
and intoxication: drink and drugs. Slang does not do kind. It's
about hatreds - both intimate and and national - about the insults
that follow on, the sneers and the put-downs. Caring, sharing and
compassion? Not at this address. There are over 10,000 terms
focusing on sex, but love? Not one. Jonathon Green, aka 'Mr Slang',
has drawn on the 600,000-plus citations that make up his
magisterial Green's Dictionary of Slang (published 2010, now online
at www.greensdictofslang.com) to tell some of slang's most
entertaining stories. Categories range from The Body to Pulp
Diction, via multi-cultural London English and pun-tastic gems.
Mostly gazing up from the gutter, slang, perhaps surprisingly, also
embraces the stars. These stories may look at drunken sailors,
dubious doctors, and a shelf of dangerously potent cocktails, but
slang does class acts as well. None more so than Shakespeare.
Devotee of the double entendre, master of the pun, first to put
nearly 300 slang terms in print. 'Shakespeare, uses, at my count,
just over five hundred "slang" terms, of which 277 are currently
the first recorded use of a given term. Among these are the beast
with two backs, every mother's son, fat-headed, heifer (for woman),
pickers and stealers (hands), small beer (insignificant matters),
what the dickens, and many more.' http://jonathongreen.co.uk
Slang, however one judges it, shows us at our most human. It is
used widely and often, typically associated with the writers of
noir fiction, teenagers, and rappers, but also found in the works
of Shakespeare and Dickens. It has been recorded since at least
1500 AD, and today's vocabulary, taken from every major
English-speaking country, runs to over 125,000 slang words and
phrases. This Very Short Introduction takes readers on a
wide-ranging tour of this fascinating sub-set of the English
language. It considers the meaning and origins of the word 'slang'
itself, the ideas that a make a word 'slang', the long-running
themes that run through slang, and the history of slang's many
dictionaries. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series
from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost
every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to
get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine
facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make
interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Once the language of thieves and beggars, slang is an ever present
part of today's culture for people across the strata. It allows us
to connect to others, to express otherwise guarded thoughts, and to
convey humor in the everyday. But how did slang escape its stigma
as the language of the streets and integrate itself so seamlessly
with "standard English?"
The Vulgar Tongue tells the full story of English language slang,
from its origins in early British beggar books to its spread in
American and Australian culture in the eighteenth century. The aim
is not to record the history of the over 125,000 English words that
make up the lexis. Rather, the author focuses on the common, often
profane themes that run through the word-list--crime, sex, bodily
parts and functions, insults, and drink and drugs--and their scope
and function throughout the various cultures and overlapping
subcultures of English language history, from the sporting world to
the university campus to ethnic communities. In tracing its
development and trajectory throughout the English-speaking world,
Jonathon Green offers an impassioned defence for its vitality,
showing how slang has grown into a modern, versatile vocabulary
that has nevertheless established its own role in contemporary
English.
Drawing on thirty years' worth of research, The Vulgar Tongue is a
celebration of the words and phrases of an overlooked aspect of
human language and interaction.
Jonothan Green offers a time trip from lat-fifties CND, beatniks
and bop to the threshold of our own decade's designer
revolutionaries and style warriors. . . His chosen form is the oral
history pioneered by Studs Terkel in which cross-cut voices recount
a shared experience or epoch. . . what anecdotes!'Guardian. Green
has collected 101 quintessential sixties groovers and lovingly
teased out their memories, all of them refreshingly self-critical
and remarkably sharpened by hindsight. 'Glasgow Herald. `This is
the first publication I've seen on the 1960s to address all closely
the question: how did it feel in that dawn to be alive?. . . An
action packed tapestry of illuminating flashbacks. 'Spectator.
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