Description
About the Author
Julie Coleman was born in Coventry and attended Finham Park Comprehensive. She studied at Manchester University and King's College London, taught at Lund University in Sweden, and is now a Professor in the School of English at the University of Leicester. She has written several books about dictionaries.
Reviews
This book offers an entertaining and informative insight into the living and ever-developing creature that is slang in the English language. The title is particularly fitting, given that the book provides a natural history of slang, i.e., how it is created, how it develops, how it adapts and survives, and how it spreads into wider use. * Forum for Modern Language Studies *
Enjoyable and succinct. Rarely, since Eric Partridge, has any scholar evinced such pleasure in the vulgar tongue... Coleman is a "top banana". * Robert McCrum, The Observer *
Completely fascinating ... immensely enjoyable ... Coleman's thinking lifts this book above the usual semi-disposable level of writing about rude words. * James McConnachie, The Sunday Times *
Coleman relishes slang in all its chewy, vigorous glory, and gives a sociological insight ... This book is the 'cat's whiskers' * The Independent on Sunday *
Book Information
ISBN 9780199679171
Author Julie Coleman
Format Paperback
Page Count 368
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Dimensions(mm) 215mm * 135mm * 19mm