I Smirt, You Stooze, They Krump


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'Tina at the Silent Disco' contains the very latest additions to the English language. Drawn from the Collins Word Web and the Collins Wordexchange, it is the most up-to-the-minute guide to evolving language.Collins has always excelled at providing up-to-date language in its dictionaries through its sophisticated language-monitoring resources. Now, Tina at the Silent Disco focuses specifically on the newest additions to the language, combining up-to-the-minute vocabulary with the colourful stories behind the next generation of English words.So, if you like to keep your finger on the pulse of the biggest, boldest, fastest-changing language on the planet, this is the year's must-have book.*Tina n Chiefly US a slang term for metamphetamine [from sixteenth the fraction of an ounce in which the drug is commonly sold illicitly]**silent disco n a form of music event at which the music is broadcast to wireless headphones worn by the attendees, thereby ensuring that those in the vicinity of the event are not troubled by noise pollution




Lexicography and Terminology


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The present book contains a collection of works devoted to current trends in theoretical and practical lexicography, terminology and terminography. All papers are divided into two main sections. Part I: Lexicography deals with analysis of historical and typological problems in lexicography with special reference to English, Italian, Russian and Southern African dictionaries for general- and special- purposes. The main focus is given to the description of principles in lexicographic presentation of non-equivalent lexics, rhyming slang, idioms, clichés and gender nominations of people in bilingual and monolingual dictionaries. Part II: Terminology and Terminography is devoted to description of the current tendencies observed in terminology and terminography studies with special reference to modern European languages such as English, Russian, Norwegian, etc. Terms of different special domains are viewed from the angle of the latest achievements of modern science, cognitive linguistics in particular. It reveals specific features of terminological word-combinations, terms in colloquial use, peculiarities of terms belonging to newly formed Languages for Special purposes, typical features of recently appeared LSPs and presentations of new dictionaries’ projects of different subject areas. This part reveals international nature of current tendencies in terminology studies and shows the national ways of their functioning and presentation in special dictionaries.




A Bit of This and a Bit of That


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A Bit Of This And A Bit Of That is the second story told using no word longer than four letters. Like the first, it was spawned from a classroom exercise in Australia where the author taught for almost 30 years. From the first book This Is As Big As It Gets Jake returns to his friends Paul and Jane who are now married and have a son, Andy. Between them, they help Jake to adjust to the loss of... well, read the book and find out. Their journey not only takes them widdershins (a colourful word for counter-clockwise) around England but also into a world of birds and a world beyond this one.




The Secret Life of Words


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"The Secret Life of Words" is a wide-ranging account not only of the history of English language and vocabulary, but also of how words witness history, reflect social change, and remind societies of its past.




Garner on Language and Writing


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Since the 1987 appearance of A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage, Bryan A. Garner has proved to be a versatile and prolific writer on legal-linguistic subjects. This collection of his essays shows both profound scholarship and sharp wit. The essays cover subjects as wide-ranging as learning to write, style, persuasion, contractual and legislative drafting, grammar, lexicography, writing in law school, writing in law practice, judicial writing, and all the literature relating to these diverse subjects.




The Prodigal Tongue


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The Prodigal Tongue takes a look at the wild, wacky and sometimes baffling road our language–English and others–is taking in its evolution. Where in the world will it end up?! Mark Abley, author of Spoken Here, has created an entertaining and informative exploration of the way that languages–English, Japanese, French, Arabic and other major tongues–are likely to transform and be transformed by their speakers during the twenty-first century. Grammar and vocabulary are just the beginning; more importantly, this book is about people. In places like Los Angeles, Tokyo, Singapore and Oxford, Abley encounters hip-hop performers and dictionary makers, bloggers and translators, novelists and therapists. He talks to a married couple who were passionately corresponding online before they met in “meatspace.” And he listens to teenagers, puzzling out the words they coin in chatrooms and virtual worlds. Everywhere he goes, he asks what the future is likely to hold for the ways we communicate. Abley balances a traditional concern for honesty and accuracy in language with an untraditional delight in newly minted expressions. Lively, evocative, passionate and playful, this is a book for everyone who cherishes the words we use.







Lexical Innovation


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In addition to borrowing from various foreign sources, the main origins of slang terms are the activation and revitalization of existing morphological and lexical material. Metaphorical manipulation of lexical items, as the main device used for the production of slangisms, shows remarkable similarities in languages otherwise quite different from each other. Slang is analyzed as a kind of substandard language variation which any full-fledged language is bound to develop because it is experimental in that it is born from insubordination and protest against the stress experienced in the speech communities of large cities and is always characterized by that element of playfulness which is the hallmark of creative language in general.




Globish: How English Became the World's Language


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Discusses how Anglo-American has become the language of the world, and describes the changes that English has brought to far-away cultures in distant places.




New Words


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An A-Z of words which have entered the English language since the 1960s. With over 2000 entries and 4000 definitions, this book reflects the preoccupations and characters of the three decades, from the Age of Aquarius to yuppies and dinkies to nanotechnology.