Description

• Title:
  Semantic Change in African American Slang
• Creator:
  Widawski, Maciej
• Description:
  Semantic change is an important part of African American slang and involves two mechanisms: figuration and shifting. Both are enormously productive and account for numerous slang expressions based on standard English. This paper presents these processes in detail. Partially drawing from the author’s earlier publications, the presentation is based on lexical material from a sizable database of citations from contemporary African American sources collected through extensive fieldwork in the United States in recent years.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Date:
  2013.11.09
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion;
  Peer-reviewed articles
• Language:
  English
• Source:
  Studia Anglica Posnaniensia; Vol. 48 No. 1 (2013); 29-44;
  Studia Anglica Posnaniensia; Tom 48 Nr 1 (2013); 29-44;
  2082-5102;
  0081-6272
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/stap/article/view/stap-2013-0002/28727
• Subject:
  semantic change;
  figuration;
  semantic shifting;
  American slang
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/stap/article/view/stap-2013-0002
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
• Type:
  other