Modern Slang in English
The Ministry of Education, RK
Kokshetau State Ualikhanov University
English department
Course Paper
Subject: “Methods of Foreign Language Teaching”
Specialty: 050119
Theme: Modern slang in English
Prepared by: Tussupzhanova D.B
Group: EGR-21
Supervisor: Veber V.A.
Kokshetau 2013
Contents:
Introduction
Chapter I
I.1. Definition of slang
I.2. Slang
I.3. Origins of slang
I.4. Development of slang
I.5. Creators of slang
I.6.Linguistic processes forming slang
I.7. Characteristics of slang
I.8. Position in the Language
Chapter II
II.1. Modern slang II.2. Usage of modern slang
II.3. Formation
II.4. Youthspeak
II.5. Common modern British slangs
II.6. Common modern American slangs
Conclusion
Bibliography
Introduction
According to the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, slang is “very informal usage in vocabulary and idiom that is characteristically more metaphorical, playful, elliptical, vivid and ephemeral than ordinary language”. For example, a quick internet search revealed that the following are all slang terms for ‘excellent’: phat; obese; shiznit and coolio. You can find examples of how these words are used in sentences on the websites about slangs.
It’s, informal, nonstandard words and phrases, generally shorter lived than the expressions of ordinary colloquial speech, and typically formed by creative, often witty juxtapositions of words or images. Slang can be contrasted with jargon (technical language of occupational or other groups) and with argot or cant (secret vocabulary of underworld groups), but the borderlines separating these categories from slang are greatly blurred, and some writers use the terms cant, argot, and jargon in a general way to include all the foregoing meanings.
Chapter I
1. Definition of slang
Main Entry: 1slang Pronunciation: 'sla[ng] Function: noun Etymology: origin unknown Date: 1756
1 : language peculiar to a particular group: as a : ARGOT b : JARGON 2
2 : an informal
Kokshetau State Ualikhanov University
English department
Course Paper
Subject: “Methods of Foreign Language Teaching”
Specialty: 050119
Theme: Modern slang in English
Prepared by: Tussupzhanova D.B
Group: EGR-21
Supervisor: Veber V.A.
Kokshetau 2013
Contents:
Introduction
Chapter I
I.1. Definition of slang
I.2. Slang
I.3. Origins of slang
I.4. Development of slang
I.5. Creators of slang
I.6.Linguistic processes forming slang
I.7. Characteristics of slang
I.8. Position in the Language
Chapter II
II.1. Modern slang II.2. Usage of modern slang
II.3. Formation
II.4. Youthspeak
II.5. Common modern British slangs
II.6. Common modern American slangs
Conclusion
Bibliography
Introduction
According to the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, slang is “very informal usage in vocabulary and idiom that is characteristically more metaphorical, playful, elliptical, vivid and ephemeral than ordinary language”. For example, a quick internet search revealed that the following are all slang terms for ‘excellent’: phat; obese; shiznit and coolio. You can find examples of how these words are used in sentences on the websites about slangs.
It’s, informal, nonstandard words and phrases, generally shorter lived than the expressions of ordinary colloquial speech, and typically formed by creative, often witty juxtapositions of words or images. Slang can be contrasted with jargon (technical language of occupational or other groups) and with argot or cant (secret vocabulary of underworld groups), but the borderlines separating these categories from slang are greatly blurred, and some writers use the terms cant, argot, and jargon in a general way to include all the foregoing meanings.
Chapter I
1. Definition of slang
Main Entry: 1slang Pronunciation: 'sla[ng] Function: noun Etymology: origin unknown Date: 1756
1 : language peculiar to a particular group: as a : ARGOT b : JARGON 2
2 : an informal
Bibliography: Chapman, Robert L. American Slang. HarperPerennial, 1987. Abridged edition of the New Dictionary of American Slang (Harper, 1986). The Encarta World English Dictionary, published by St. Martin 's Press. 1999 Flexner, Stuart Berg, and Anne H The Oxford dictionary of modern slang - John Ayto / John Simpson.Published by Oxford University Press. 1992. Partridge, Eric. Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English. Macmillan, 1985. A classic, with 7,500 entries; first published in 1937. Peter van der Merwe, Origins of the Popular Style (1989, reissued 1992), Webster 's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc Wentworth, Harold and Flexner, Stuart Berg. Dictionary of American Slang. Crowell, 2d ed., 1975. For more information: www.idiomconnection.com