Slang: The People's Poetry

by Michael Adams

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Slang, writes Michael Adams, is poetry on the down low, and sometimes lowdown poetry on the down low, but rarely, if ever, merely lowdown. It is the poetry of everyday speech, the people's poetry, and it deserves attention as language playing on the cusp of art. In Slang: The People's Poetry, Adams covers this perennially interesting subject in a serious but highly engaging way, illuminating the fundamental question "What is Slang" and defending slang--and...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0195314638

ISBN13:9780195314632

Release Date:April 2009

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:256 Pages

Weight:0.90 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 5.7" x 8.5"

Related Subjects

Education & Reference Foreign Language Study & Reference Humanities Language Arts Linguistics Politics & Social Sciences Reference Social Science Social Sciences Textbooks Words, Language & Grammar

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