Jonathon Green is Britain's foremost lexicographer of slang. His many publications include the Chambers Slang Dictionary, the Slang Thesaurus, Slang Down the Ages and the multivolume Green's Dictionary of Slang. He has also compiled dictionaries of quotations and oral histories of modern culture. He lives in London and Paris.
15 Ebooks par Jonathon Green
Jonathon Green: Language!
In this richly entertaining book, Jonathon Green traces the development of slang and its trajectory through society, and offers an impassioned argument for its defence. Beginning, at least in recorde …
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Jonathon Green: Vulgar Tongue
Once the language of thieves and beggars, slang is an ever present part of today’s culture for people across the strata. It allows us to connect to others, to express otherwise guarded thoughts, and …
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€19.21
Jonathon Green: Vulgar Tongue
Once the language of thieves and beggars, slang is an ever present part of today’s culture for people across the strata. It allows us to connect to others, to express otherwise guarded thoughts, and …
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€25.67
Jonathon Green: Dictionary of Jargon (Routledge Revivals)
First published in 1987, the Dictionary of Jargon expands on its predecessor Newspeak (Routledge Revivals, 2014) as an authoritative reference guide to specialist occupational slang, or jargon. Conta …
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€70.50
Jonathon Green: Dictionary of Jargon (Routledge Revivals)
First published in 1987, the Dictionary of Jargon expands on its predecessor Newspeak (Routledge Revivals, 2014) as an authoritative reference guide to specialist occupational slang, or jargon. Conta …
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€70.50
Jonathon Green: Newspeak (Routledge Revivals)
George Orwell coined the term ‘Newspeak’ for his novel 1984, the purpose of which was designed to shrink vocabularies and eliminate subtlety and nuance. For this dictionary, first published to herald …
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€49.08
Jonathon Green: Newspeak (Routledge Revivals)
George Orwell coined the term ‘Newspeak’ for his novel 1984, the purpose of which was designed to shrink vocabularies and eliminate subtlety and nuance. For this dictionary, first published to herald …
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€48.48
Jonathon Green: – Z of Nuclear Jargon (Routledge Revivals)
First published in 1986, the purpose of this dictionary is to clarify the technology behind nuclear jargon. The entries deal with all areas of nuclear warfare: its strategies and tactics, personnel a …
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€32.10
Jonathon Green: – Z of Nuclear Jargon (Routledge Revivals)
First published in 1986, the purpose of this dictionary is to clarify the technology behind nuclear jargon. The entries deal with all areas of nuclear warfare: its strategies and tactics, personnel a …
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€32.09
Jonathon Green: Stories of Slang
‘If you’re up for an adventure through the back alleys of English, The Stories of Slang will not disappoint.’ Kory Stamper, Times Literary Supplement’Few lexicographers are lucky enough to have both …
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€3.99
Gary Russell: Doctor Who: Book 5: Monstrous Missions
Exciting action-packed new original fiction for younger Doctor Who fans, starring the Eleventh Doctor with his companions Amy Pond and Rory Williams. Monstrous Missions contains two fast-paced, fun-f …
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€7.99
Jonathon Green: Crooked Talk
The language of crime has a long and venerable history – in fact, the first collection of words specifically used by criminals, Hye-Way to the Spittel House, dates from as early as 1531. Jonathon Gre …
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€12.99
Jonathon Green: Days In The Life
Jonothan Green offers a time trip from lat-fifties CND, beatniks and bop to the threshold of our own decade’s designer revolutionaries and style warriors. . . His chosen form is the oral history pion …
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€14.99
Jonathon Green: Odd Job Man
For thirty years Jonathon Green has been collecting slang the indefinable language of the gutter, the brothel, the jail, the barroom producing a succession of dictionaries, most recently the three-vo …
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Jonathon Green: Sounds & Furies
‘In terms of a non-fiction account of how historical and contemporary language has been shaped by women, I really recommend lexicographer Jonathon Green’s Sounds and Furies’ELEY WILIAMS, author of Th …
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