Jonathon Green
Biographic Data
| ID | 5382962 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathon Green |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathon |
| FAMILY NAME | Green |
| SIGNATURE | GREEN J |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 28 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Prize-Problem Partridge
Writing in Slang To-day and Yesterday (1933), his pioneering history of the lexical subset that would become his life's work, Eric Partridge, who in time would become the 20 th century's leading expert in its lexis, pondered the etymology of the word ‘slang’. It was, he confessed, a ‘prize-problem word’. 82 years on, and 36 since the death at 85 of the man whose many fans would nickname him ‘The Word King’, it is hard to avoid feeling that in ter…
Some thoughts on slang
Slang is a self-sufficient, subversive, oppositional subset of the English language. It has given a tongue, by no means inarticulate, to the marginal, the criminal and the dispossessed for at least half a millennium. But it is hard to pin down: even the etymology of the word ‘slang’ remains unsubstantiated. Perhaps inevitably it challenges concrete linguistic definition, remaining a source of argument: is it a full scale language or simply a lexi…
Caveat emptor
Being commanded by her elder sister to get 'the Dictionary' from the cupboard, Miss Jemima had extracted two copies of the book from the receptacle in question. [. . .] 'Becky, Becky Sharp, here's a book for you [. . .] Johnson's Dixonary, you know; you mustn't leave us without that. Good-by. Drive on, coachman. God bless you!' [. . .] But, lo! and just as the coach drove off, Miss Sharp put her pale face out of the window and actually flung the …
The spiritualist and the jingo
Language
Take you pixel
Language
Language
Slang by dates
Language
This black diction has become America's addiction. ‐ Kanye West, 'Crack Music', 2005 Kanye West, whose rocketing status in the world of rap has in the last two years made him one of its best‐known stars, should know. If black America's primary contribution to the world is its music ‐ its sportsmen tend to be found in America‐only competitions, for all that some declare themselves 'world series' ‐ then coming up fast to an equal predominence, at l…
Sticks and stones
Dick‐tionaries
Wash your mouth out
The phone rings. It is the BBC, probably some local radio station. Can I help? A royal has done it, a pol. has done it, a tinker, a tailor, a soldier ... someone deemed newsworthy, anyway. Yes: someone's said fuck. In public. Coo‐err. And they want me to comment. I regale the researcher. A little history, a little lexicography, a little obscene publications. We book an interview slot. 'But there's just one thing: you won't actually say the word, …
Hark, hark
For all that both parties delight in language, and within language words, it is axiomatic that twixt linguists and lexicographers a gulf must always yawn. One need but peep into the discussion website of the American Dialect Society (mercifully open to those who are neither Americans nor dialecticians) to see the division in practice. The linguists ponder some usage arcana, say the similarities (or differences, or whatever they choose quite frank…
Rhyming slang
Language
Language
Language
Language
days when a wrongly-spelt word earned one a dunce cap and a turn in the corner
Language
Language
Language
Language
Language
Language
No prominent works on this page.
Language
Language
Harmless Drudges throughout History
Language
Language
Language
Language
Language
Language
Language
days when a wrongly-spelt word earned one a dunce cap and a turn in the corner
Language
Language
Language
Rhyming slang
Wash your mouth out
The phone rings. It is the BBC, probably some local radio station. Can I help? A royal has done it, a pol. has done it, a tinker, a tailor, a soldier ... someone deemed newsworthy, anyway. Yes: someone's said fuck. In public. Coo‐err. And they want me to comment. I regale the researcher. A little history, a little lexicography, a little obscene publications. We book an interview slot. 'But there's just one thing: you won't actually say the word, …
Hark, hark
For all that both parties delight in language, and within language words, it is axiomatic that twixt linguists and lexicographers a gulf must always yawn. One need but peep into the discussion website of the American Dialect Society (mercifully open to those who are neither Americans nor dialecticians) to see the division in practice. The linguists ponder some usage arcana, say the similarities (or differences, or whatever they choose quite frank…
Sticks and stones
Dick‐tionaries
Slang by dates
Language
This black diction has become America's addiction. ‐ Kanye West, 'Crack Music', 2005 Kanye West, whose rocketing status in the world of rap has in the last two years made him one of its best‐known stars, should know. If black America's primary contribution to the world is its music ‐ its sportsmen tend to be found in America‐only competitions, for all that some declare themselves 'world series' ‐ then coming up fast to an equal predominence, at l…
Language
Language
Language
Take you pixel
Caveat emptor
Being commanded by her elder sister to get 'the Dictionary' from the cupboard, Miss Jemima had extracted two copies of the book from the receptacle in question. [. . .] 'Becky, Becky Sharp, here's a book for you [. . .] Johnson's Dixonary, you know; you mustn't leave us without that. Good-by. Drive on, coachman. God bless you!' [. . .] But, lo! and just as the coach drove off, Miss Sharp put her pale face out of the window and actually flung the …
Computer Science (22 works) · Citation (20 works) · Linguistics (15 works) · Philosophy (15 works) · Library science (13 works) · World Wide Web (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Lexicography and Language Studies (6 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (6 works) · History (5 works)