CHANGEABILITY OF SLANG VOCABULARY

• Authors: Widawski Maciej
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper analyzes some of the most frequent changeability processes in American slang. They may involve the change in slang with relation to standard language (from standard to slang, or vice versa), but they may also involve change within slang itself (via semantic shifts including pejoration, melioration, generalization, and specialization), as well as the appearance, disappearance, or reappearance of slang terms. This paper also discusses various types of slang with regard to language change (such as ephemeral, passive, static-core and recycled slang) and the reasons for change (such as social, generational, and other).

Keywords

EN

AMERICAN ENGLISH; LEXICAL CHANGE; SLANG; SOCIOLINGUISTICS

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Wydział I Nauk Humanistycznych i Społecznych PAN, Społeczna Akademia Nauk w Łodzi
• Journal: Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 57
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 3-12
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Widawski Maciej

• Maciej Widawski, Uniwersytet Gdanski, Instytut Anglistyki, Zaklad Socjolingwistyki, ul. Wita Stwosza 55, 80-952 Gdansk, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10PLAAAA084921