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Slang is always with us, reinvented by each new generation, so surely, you imagine, such a treatise has already been written.
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After reading Tamasi’s review, however, I decided that, more than a simple definition, we needed a thorough inquiry into the very nature and purposes of slang. Is slang merely a swath of English vocabulary, best understood in contrast with other types of words and phrases? Or is it the currency with which we negotiate our social identities? Or is it, quite impressively really, a more or less impromptu verbal art-poetry, one might say, if one were given to speaking slang, on the fly? Is slang something we (Homo sapiens, speakers of languages around the world) invented as a result of social interaction, or is it a type of language we can’t escape, part of our biological as well as our social heritage? Of course, if you’re desperate for one, every general dictionary of English includes a definition of slang, and they are all informative, even if they aren’tĬompatible with one another.
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I soon learned that slang was both more interesting and more complex than I had realized, and that an adequate understanding of it would demand investigation far beyond the boundaries of slayer slang. After all, even if there’s lots of slang in the universe of language, the Buffyverse is a relatively small verse and more easily navigated. I never found an actual definition of the word slang, even though other linguistic terms were defined and slang was often compared to other categories, such as ‘jargon’ and ‘standard American English.’ ” I thought I knew enough about slang to write that book, concerned as it was with those aspects of slang especially well illustrated in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Buffyverse. Reviewing my previous book, Slayer Slang: A “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” Lexicon (2003), in the Journal of English Linguistics (March 2005), Susan Tamasi wrote, “As a linguist, I have one criticism. It’s all in your head: cognitive aspects of slang This Is Your Brain on Slang-Slang and Language Play-“My Bad” Means Never Having to Say “I’m Sorry”-Slang as Linguistic Spandrel-Toward a Poetics of Slang Standing out: aesthetic dimensions of slang 111 How’s It Goin’, Protozoan?-Indiddlyfixing Is the Shiznit- Lexifabricography and the Lexically Meaningful Infix-The Raunch and the Hip: Two Slang Aesthetics-Slang as a Negative Capability Mongo-Slang by Definition-Language of Purpose versus Language of Being-Lowdown, or Poetry on the Down Low?-What It Isįlash Slang Cards-Boyz in the Hood Speak Slang, Soccer Moms Don’t-Youth: An Interlude-Negotiating with Slang-It’s a Small World, After All PE3711.A33 2008 427'.09-dc22ĩ 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Adams, Michael, 1961– Slang : the people’s poetry / Michael Adams. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of Oxford University Press. 198 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10016 Oxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press All rights reserved. Oxford New York Auckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi New Delhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto With offices in Argentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore South Korea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam Copyright © 2009 by Michael Adams Published by Oxford University Press, Inc. 1 Oxford University Press, Inc., publishes works that further Oxford University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education.