Julie Coleman (ed.), Global English Slang. Methodologies and Perspectives, London & New York, Routledge, 2014, 374 p.
Journal Title: Argotica - Year 2015, Vol 0, Issue 1
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George Volceanov
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George Volceanov
Game over
Language persists, slang never dies, but lexicography, of ei-ther set or subset: what is becoming of that. A death, a rebirth, or a metamorphosis? It is possible that I am the last.
Seuls les gros mots exigent réparation. À propos des dires de JFN sur le président Biya
The speech of Jacques Fame Ndongo (JFN) during the preelectoral year (2010) in Cameroon was highly echoed in the press. On the TV channel Africa 24, he was accused of assimilating Cameroonians to “slaves” of Biya. About...
Le problème de la traduction des locutions argotiques caractérologiques françaises en russe
Nowadays the French argotic phraseological units are a constant source of enrichment of the common language and they participate in the development and renewal of French language. One of the main functions of the argotic...
L’Argot et La Langue du peuple : procédés lexicaux et fonctions chez V. Hugo (Les Misérables) et É. Zola L’Assommoir)
In the nineteenth century, the word “argot”, which originally meant ‘underworld,’ is given the larger definition of “green tongue”. From then, it becomes of interest for novelists like Victor Hugo Émile Zola who wants to...
George Volceanov, Raluca Nicolae, George Paul Volceanov, Dicționar de argou englez-român, Bucureşti, Niculescu, 2015, 240 p.
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