The language report
By: Susie Dent.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 151
Subjects: English language -- New words; English language -- Spoken English; English language -- Written English; English language -- Usage
Table of contents: title: What goes around : a hundred years of new words; title: In the spotlight : the words in the news; title: The language innovators : how new words come about; title: WAN 2 TLK TXT?; title: Words on the catwalk; title: Plain cyberspeaking; title: Fighting talk : the language of battle; title: Talking on message : the new political lexicon; title: Riding the soundwaves; title: The language traders : business speak; title: The word on the pitch : sporting language; title: Quotes of the century; title: Slanguage on the streets : the new urban slang; title: Chewing the linguistic scenery : idioms; title: Slogans are forever : the best of advertising; title: I'm a celebrity, get me in the the dictionary; title: Dinky dirts and Tony Blairs : rhyming slang in the 2000s; title: Free comment : the art of the headline; title: Sticks and stones; title: Apostrophe catastrophes : new trends in grammar and usage; title: Crossing continents : US English; title: Where global meets local : world English; title: Sound and fury : the changing pronunciation of British English; title: The sound of American English; title: Fictional realities : the language of TV.