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Peer reviewedTong, Virginia; McIntyre, Tom; Silmon, Herman – Journal of Correctional Education, 1997
Discusses why correctional educators need to understand prisoners' argot and provides a glossary of prison slang. (SK)
Descriptors: Correctional Institutions, Language Styles, Prisoners
Peer reviewedBrann, C. M. B. – Language Problems and Language Planning, 1987
Discusses the use of terms to describe sociolinguistic situations in multilingual societies and proposes several new terms to facilitate such descriptions. (CB)
Descriptors: Definitions, Language Research, Language Styles, Lexicology
Lataud, Christine Klein – Francais dans le Monde, 1985
Aspects of syntax, semantics, morphology, and vocabulary that would be helpful in teaching elementary French slang are outlined briefly. (MSE)
Descriptors: French, Language Styles, Morphology (Languages), Popular Culture
Gomez, Ernesto; Cerda, Gilberto – 1976
Results of a study documenting the Mexican American's unique Spanish dialectal expressions used in the barrios of San Antonio, Texas, and its surrounding areas are presented. The expressions included are those which were not recorded in the "Diccionario de la Real Academia Espanola" (19th Edition) or which were recorded therein but with…
Descriptors: Definitions, Dialect Studies, Folk Culture, Glossaries
Download full textHall, William S.; And Others – 1980
The word frequency lists presented in this publication were compiled to create a database for further research into vocabulary use, especially the variation in vocabulary due to differences in situation and social group membership. Taken from the natural conversations of 40 target children (four and a half to five years old) with their families,…
Descriptors: Child Language, Computational Linguistics, Language Research, Language Styles
