The City in Slang: New York Life and Popular Speech

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Название: The City in Slang: New York Life and Popular Speech

Автор: Irving Lewis Allen

Издательство: Oxford University Press

Год: 1995

Страниц: 320

Формат: PDF

Размер: 20 Mb

Язык: Английский

The American urban scene, and in particular New York's, has given us a rich cultural legacy of slang words and phrases, a bonanza of popular speech. Hot dog, rush hour, butter-and-egg man, gold digger, shyster, buttinsky, smart aleck, sidewalk superintendent, yellow journalism, breadline, straphanger, tar beach, the Tenderloin, the Great White Way, to do a Brodie--these are just a few of the hundreds of popular words and phrases that were born or took on new meaning in the streets of New York. In The City in Slang, Irving Lewis Allen traces this flowering of popular expressions that accompanied the emergence of the New York metropolis from the early nineteenth century down to the present.