Slang and Sociability: In-Group Language Among College Students Second Edition
Author(s): Connie Eble (Author)
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Publication Date: 29 April 1996
Edition: Second
Language: English
Print length: 240 pages
ISBN-10: 0807845841
ISBN-13: 9780807845844
Book Description
Slang is often seen as a lesser form of language, one that is simply not as meaningful or important as its ‘regular’ counterpart. Connie Eble refutes this notion as she reveals the sources, poetry, symbolism, and subtlety of informal slang expressions.
Editorial Reviews
Review
A delight to read-at last someone is paying serious attention to a vital and vibrant contemporary linguistic tradition.
Deborah Tannen, author of “Talking Voices” and “Talking from 9 to 5”
A delight to read–at last someone is paying serious attention to a vital and vibrant contemporary linguistic tradition.
Deborah Tannen, author of “Talking Voices” and “Talking from 9 to 5”
“A delight to read–at last someone is paying serious attention to a vital and vibrant contemporary linguistic tradition.
Deborah Tannen, author of “Talking Voices” and “Talking from 9 to 5″”
From the Back Cover
EBle explores the words and phrases that American college students use casually among themselves. Based on more than 10,000 examples submitted by Eble’s students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill over the last twenty years, the book shows that slang is dynamic vocabulary that cannot be dismissed as deviant or marginal.
About the Author
Connie Eble, professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is author of College Slang 101.
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