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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"slang"”.
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The use of peer-group slang in young adult fiction /
… within countries around the world has its own slang. Its informality and creativity attracts many people to use it as part of their daily language. It is a tool in communication that gives us social and personal identity. This means that with our individual communication and speech we can …
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Internet Slang and China's Social Culture: A Case Study of Internet Users in Guiyang
… of people. These messages often disseminate slang not found in Standard Mandarin; nevertheless, some of these slang expressions have become so widely accepted that they have been entered into the official Xinhua dictionary. The goal of this study was to examine the attitude of young Chinese …
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Lesbian lingo: slang terminology in English and Spanish spoken by lesbian communities in the United States
… and knowledge of English and Spanish lesbian slang terminology, and is analyzed to determine relationships between demographic characteristics and linguistic knowledge. Selected English lesbian slang words are pertinent to the lesbian community as determined by past studies on LGBTQIA+ …
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Slang Familiarity Effects on Subtitle Comprehension: High-Frequency Generation Z Terms in English-Greek Social Media Subtitling
Η παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία διερευνά πώς διαφορετικά επίπεδα λεξικής οικειότητας επηρεάζουν την κατανόηση υποτίτλων από θεατές της Γενιάς Ζ και θεατές που δεν ανήκουν στη Γενιά Ζ κατά την επεξεργασία της αγγλικής αργκό της Γενιάς Ζ στα μέσα κοινωνικής δικτύωσης (π.χ. Instagram). Βασιζόμενη στη …
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The use of Iscamtho by children in white city-Jabavu, Soweto: slang and language contact in an African urban context
… This thesis is interested in issues of slang use among children and language contact, as part of the larger field of tsotsitaal studies. It is interested in: sociolinguistic issues of registers, slang, and style; and linguistic issues regarding the structural output of language contact. …
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Language support for service-level agreements for application-service provision
… abstract, extensible, domain-specific language, SLAng. SLAng is defined using a meta-modelling approach that allows a high degree of precision in the specification of its semantics, traceability from SLA to language specification, and the testing of the language and SLAs to ensure they capture …
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Instant message communication and its impact upon written language
… of language deconstruction (i.e., Internet slang, use of emoticons, and shorthand) in instant messaging will be analyzed through content analysis and through a series of interviews with high school and college journalism instructors. Does computer-mediated communication, specifically Instant …
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La Llorona Don't Swim The L.A River: A Trickster's Guide To The Poetics Of The Pit
… telling by blending Spanish, English, street slang, and the casual spoken diction. The speaker embodies several versions of the trickster figure: linguistic tricksterism, cultural tricksterism, gender tricksterism, and religious tricksterism. She navigates linguistic tricksterism through the …
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Campaign songs as a factor in American politics
… patriotic. Walt Whitman in his article “Slang in America” observes that folk songs, like language, are not an abstract construction of the learned, bu something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has their bases broad and …
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Digital dialogues : a qualitative single-case study exploring adult patrons’ experiences in online English language classes at a public library.
… the importance of English slang, idiomatic, and contextual communication for real-world application; and 3) personal expression—underscoring the role of expression of ideas and thoughts and interpersonal connections in fostering engagement and authentic language use. I …
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Organized-crime growth and sustainment: a review of the influence of popular religion and beliefs in Mexico
… film, religious beliefs and practices, and slang, which have become standard in some parts of the country, especially among the lower class and uneducated. This thesis investigates the relationship between the narco-cultura and organized crime in Mexico, as viewed from multiple perspectives. …
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Orifice of Return
… address, song lyrics, colloquial speech and slang, etc.) These poems interrogate histories and imagine speculative futures for Black folks. They exist in lineage— familial, imagined, literary ancestral, and with the theoretical underpinnings of Black feminist hauntology and Toni Morrison's …
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ENGLISH WORD-MAKING
… Appendix 2 is an attempt to apply to the slang lexicon of St. Paul's School (vintage 1978) the principals of morphological analysis that are treated throughout the manuscript.</p>
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StoryPass: a system and study for memorable secure passphrases.
… which were not guessed generally contained slang and \non-words" which are words that are not found in standard dictionaries. Using a sentence-like structure in passphrases greatly improved usability. Memory errors were the leading cause of failed login; error correction techniques were used …
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Computer Mediated Communication: Enregisterment of Gamerspeak and Intertextual Borrowings by 4chan Users
… processes already common in the development of slang and other forms of language change, and I used the results of this analysis to generate a survey about understanding of these language forms. This survey was distributed to participants who had different amounts of experience with video games …
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The Artistic Uses of Metaphors in Constructing Meanings and Messages in new Generation Songs in Tanzania
… similes, synecdoche, proverb, symbolism and slang in constructing meanings and messages. Therefore, the audience comprehends meaning of a metaphor on the basis of the context of use, body of knowledge and experience and socio-cultural relations. Furthermore, the study found that the …
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Exploring linguistic "creativity" on social media: A case of selected posts by Namibians on Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp
… code-switching/mixing, colloquialisms and slang, and other forms such as vulgar and acronyms. The study concluded that linguistic innovation and creativity depend on the social media platform, based on features such as text limits and visibility of the conversations or posts. The study was …
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Maisons de presse, Maisons de passe: Prostitution in the Parisian Literary Market, 1830 - 1923
… In this dissertation, I analyse prefaces to slang dictionaries and scenes in novels in which venal characters read and/or write: moments where the prostitute as subject collapses into metaphor. I use these as an interpretive lens for understanding how authors from Balzac to Proust might turn …
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Computational criminology: at-scale quantitative analysis of the evolution of cybercrime forums
… theory to analyse the usage of argot (jargon and slang) on the forum, finding a negative correlation with reputation usage, and clustering to find a decreasing use of argot over time. Part of this contribution includes a lightweight argot detection pipeline with word embeddings aligned with manual …
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