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From Skedaddle to Selfie Allan Metcalf (Professor of English, Professor of English, MacMurray College)

From Skedaddle to Selfie von Allan Metcalf (Professor of English, Professor of English, MacMurray College)

From Skedaddle to Selfie Allan Metcalf (Professor of English, Professor of English, MacMurray College)

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Zusammenfassung

Selfie, slacker, groovy, teenager-these are some of the words that have emerged from the different generations in American history. This book tells the stories of these and dozens of other words that identify and characterize the generations, from skedaddle, dude, and sexy, to rock and roll, streaking, and friends with benefits.

From Skedaddle to Selfie Zusammenfassung

From Skedaddle to Selfie: Words of the Generations Allan Metcalf (Professor of English, Professor of English, MacMurray College)

From baby boomers with 'groovy' and 'yuppie' to Generation X with 'whatever' and 'like,' each generation inevitably generates original words that come out of its social and historical context. Those words not only tell us a great deal about the people in those generations, but also highlight the differences between them and other generations. In this book, Allan Metcalf, author of OK, uses a special framework of defining American generations to show that each generation of those born within a particular 20-year time period can be identified and characterized by words it chooses to use. By sampling from as far back as the American Revolution, Metcalf carefully constructs a comprehensive account of the history and usage of words associated with each generation in the American language. With special attention to the differences in vocabulary among the generations currently living-the sometimes awkward Millennials, the grunge music of Generation X, hippies among the Boomers, and bobbysoxers among the Silents - From Skeddadle to Selfie compiles dozens of words we have come to recognize or use and tells the unheard stories of each in its role of accompanying its generation through the times.

From Skedaddle to Selfie Bewertungen

fun-sized contribution to the pop-etymology shelves * Sam Leith, The Guardian *
sprightly history of American slang * Sam Kitchener, The Sunday Telegraph *
an enjoyable, interesting ... read for the armchair etymologist. * Copyediting *
what makes this book stand out is the sociology included in the look at these words. * BookBag *

Über Allan Metcalf (Professor of English, Professor of English, MacMurray College)

Allan Metcalf is author of six previous books on language, most recently OK: The Improbable Story of America's Greatest Word (Oxford University Press, 2010). He posts weekly to the Lingua Franca blog of the Chronicle of Higher Education, and, as executive secretary of the American Dialect Society, invented that group's annual vote on Word of the Year. He is Professor of English at MacMurray College and consultant to attorneys on matters of language and law.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Speaking of the Generations ; 2. The Republican Generation - (born 1742-1766) ; 3. The Compromise Generation - (born 1767-1791) ; 4. The Transcendental Generation - (born 1792-1821) ; 5. The Gilded Generation - (born 1822-1842) ; 6. The Progressive Generation - (born 1843-1859) ; 7. The Missionary Generation - (born 1860-1882) ; 8. The Lost Generation - (born 1883-1900) ; 9. The G.I. Generation - (born 1901-1924) ; 10. The Silent Generation - (born 1925-1942) ; 11. The Boom Generation - (born 1943-1960) ; 12. The Thirteenth Generation, or Generation X - (born 1961-1981) ; 13. The Millennial Generation, or Generation Y - (born 1982-2004) ; 14. The Homeland Generation - (born 2005-current)

Zusätzliche Informationen

GOR007407309
9780199927128
019992712X
From Skedaddle to Selfie: Words of the Generations Allan Metcalf (Professor of English, Professor of English, MacMurray College)
Allan Metcalf (Professor of English, Professor of English, MacMurray College)
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Oxford University Press
2015-12-07
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