City in slang, the: new york life and popular speech
Auteur :
Allen
Éditeur :
Oxford University Press Inc
ISBN :
9780195092653
Date de publication :
20 avr. 1995
Dimensions :
20,3 x 13,6 x 1,7 cm
Poids :
417 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Irving Lewis Allen provides an insightful history of the rise of New York as a metropolis and the accompanying slang that surrounded it. Anecdotal and at times analytical, this book is both a lexicon of slang, and a history of recent casual language.