Vulgar Tongues
Max Décharné
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft
Beschreibung
Slang is the language of pop culture, low culture, street culture, underground movements and secret societies; depending on your point of view, it is a badge of honour, a sign of identity or a dangerous assault on the values of polite society.
Over several centuries and across international borders, VULGAR TONGUES is the story of how the English language of Shakespeare's day fragmented and twisted into all kinds of shapes, as people like pickpockets, beggars, sailors, musicians, gangsters, whores, politicians, gypsies, soldiers, gays and lesbians, policemen, rappers, cockneys, biker gangs and circus folk seized the King's or Queen's English by the throat and took it to places it would probably regret in the morning.
Rezensionen
English slang is a field rich for tillage, as Max Décharné proves in <i>Vulgar Tongues</i>, a triumph of philological research and mordant social commentary...[it] never loses sight of slang'
This amusing book ... contains a wealth of entertaining detail.
A fantastic book
Max Décharné'
Though he may not be a professional linguist, he has an infectious enthusiasm for the peculiarities of English vocabulary... The strength of Mr. Décharné'
<p>A detailed delight ... The entertainment to be found within this etymology is legion ... Luckily for us, Décharné is a master of the manifold, who wields a light touch over a heavy amount of research ... Décharné'
I'm loving Max Décharné'
Décharné, a musician and songwriter, has written extensively on music, crime and noir, and his great gift is to connect his encyclopedic knowledge of more recent slang to that of the past. His mind is a trivia-trap of the first order, and the book is a bracing historical tour of the lexicons of sex, prostitution, crime, alcohol, drugs, popular music and military slang.
[Décharné'
Kundenbewertungen
etymology, history of slang, history of words, slang, cursing, swearing