Green's Dictionary of Slang (multi-volume set)

Green's Dictionary of Slang (multi-volume set)
Author: Jonathon Green
Publisher: Chambers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-07-01
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780550104403

The three volumes of Green's Dictionary of Slang demonstrate the sheer scope of a lifetime of research by Jonathon Green, the leading slang lexicographer of our time. A remarkable collection of this often reviled but endlessly fascinating area of the English language, it covers slang from the past five centuries right up to the present day, from all the different English-speaking countries and regions. Totaling 10.3 million words and over 53,000 entries, the collection provides the definitions of 100,000 words and over 413,000 citations. Every word and phrase is authenticated by genuine and fully-referenced citations of its use, giving the work a level of authority and scholarship unmatched by any other publication in this field. Winner of the Dartmouth Medal RUSA/ALA Outstanding Reference Source 2011 Booklist Editors' Choice Library Journal Best Reference 2011

Cassell's Dictionary of Slang

Cassell's Dictionary of Slang
Author: Jonathon Green
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Total Pages: 1600
Release: 2005
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780304366361

With its unparalleled coverage of English slang of all types (from 18th-century cant to contemporary gay slang), and its uncluttered editorial apparatus, Cassell's Dictionary of Slang was warmly received when its first edition appeared in 1998. 'Brilliant.' said Mark Lawson on BBC2's The Late Review; 'This is a terrific piece of work - learned, entertaining, funny, stimulating' said Jonathan Meades in The Evening Standard.But now the world's best single-volume dictionary of English slang is about to get even better. Jonathon Green has spent the last seven years on a vast project: to research in depth the English slang vocabulary and to hunt down and record written instances of the use of as many slang words as possible. This has entailed trawling through more than 4000 books - plus song lyrics, TV and movie scripts, and many newspapers and magazines - for relevant material. The research has thrown up some fascinating results

Slang Through the Ages

Slang Through the Ages
Author: Jonathon Green
Publisher: Ntc Publishing Group
Total Pages: 393
Release: 1997
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780844208343

Takes popular standard English terms and traces the development of their slang equivalents over the past 500 years

Chambers Slang Dictionary

Chambers Slang Dictionary
Author: Jonathon Green
Publisher: Larousse Kingfisher Chambers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780550105639

A scholarly reference to slang expressions from all parts of the English-speaking world includes coverage of twenty-first-century terms and lists explanations of word origins.

The Vulgar Tongue

The Vulgar Tongue
Author: Jonathon Green
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 430
Release: 2015
Genre: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
ISBN: 0199398143

"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"--

Dictionary of Jargon (Routledge Revivals)

Dictionary of Jargon (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Jonathon Green
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 1445
Release: 2013-10-02
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1317908171

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.

Slang Down the Ages

Slang Down the Ages
Author: Jonathon Green
Publisher:
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2005
Genre: English language
ISBN: 9781856266376

Coined in the spontaneity of the everyday spoken act, slang exists as a testament to human nature's inventive and subversive instinct. This history of English slang documents our verbal predilections for the racier side of life, at the expense of the more quotidian, let alone respectable - it is no coincidence that the longest chapters in this book concern sex, money, drink and drugs. Slang Down the Ages tackles its subject theme by theme, taking standard English words and phrases and tracing the ingenuity of their slang equivalents over time. In each case approximating 'earliest use'. Be amused by the playfulness of our linguistic heritage, intrigued by our need for encrypted signs and appalied by some of the more bold-faced puns, as Jonathon Green charts five centuries of our developing and ever-diversifying vocabulary.

Slang

Slang
Author: Jonathon Green
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2016
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0198729537

"In this Very Short Introduction Jonathon Green asks what words qualify as slang, and whether slang should be acknowledged as a language in its own right. Looking forward, he considers what the digital revolution means for the future of slang."--Cover flap.

The Big Book of Filth

The Big Book of Filth
Author: Jonathon Green
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006-01-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9780304368242

More than 6,500 off-color phrases, all vividly, explicitly defined. Categories include body sites, arousal and frustration, masturbation, orgasm, oral, kinky, gay, bi, and safe sex, and more. Sources range from street jargon and popular music lyrics to literary allusions, fascinating etymologies, and rhyming slang.