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Podcast: New Books in Library Science
Episode: Jonathan Green, āGreenās Dictionary of Slangā (Hodder Education, 2010)
Description: Over the last thirty years, Jonathon Green has established himself as a major figure in lexicography, specialising in English slang. During this time he has accumulated a database of over half a million citations for more than 100,000 words and phrases, and these are the basis for the vast, authoritative and widely acclaimed Greenās Dictionary of Slang (Hodder Education, 2010), winner of the Dartmouth Medal as the American Library Associationās āoutstanding reference work of the yearā.Slangās definition is itself perhaps elusive, but to Green it is ācounter-languageā, by analogy with ācounter-cultureā, and possesses the same vivid qualities: i...