Date:  Mon, 15 Apr 1996 16:05:47 -0400

From:  Jeutonne Brewer <jpbrewer[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]HAMLET.UNCG.EDU>

Subject: Re: Request for help on divergency



Connie Eble's book is surely the most recent source of information:



Slang and Sociability: In-Group Language among Colege Students.

Chapel Hill: U of NC Press, 1996.



According to the information from the press, Connie's book refutes the

notion of slang as a "lesser form of language...as she reveals the sources,

poetry, symbolism, and subtlety of informal slang expresses....Slang is

dynamic vocabulary that cannot be dismissed as deviant or marginal."

Jeutonne Brewer





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