How the Irish Invented Slang: The Secret Language of the Crossroads - Couverture souple

Cassidy, Daniel

 
9781904859604: How the Irish Invented Slang: The Secret Language of the Crossroads
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1904859607 ISBN 13 : 9781904859604
Editeur : AK Press, 2007

Synopsis

In a series of lively essays, this pioneering book proves that US slang has its strongest wellsprings in nineteenth-century Irish America. "Jazz" and "poker," "sucker" and "scam" all derive from Irish. While demonstrating this, Daniel Cassidy simultaneously traces the hidden history of how Ireland fashioned America, not just linguistically, but through the Irish gambling underworld, urban street gangs, and the powerful political machines that grew out of them. Cassidy uncovers a secret national heritage, long discounted by our WASP-dominated culture.

Daniel Cassidy is the founder and co-director of the Irish Studies Program at New College in San Francisco.

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À propos de l?auteur

Daniel Cassidy is founder and co-director of An Léann Éireannach, the Irish Studies Program at New College of California in San Francisco. His research on the Irish language's influence on American vernacular and slang has been published in the New York Observer, Ireland's Hot Press magazine, The San Francisco Chronicle, and Lá, the Irish-language newspaper.

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Éditeur
AK Press
Date d'édition
2007
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1904859607
ISBN 13 
9781904859604
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
224
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Personne responsable
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