10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ARGOTIC»
Discover the use of
argotic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
argotic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Trades of the Trick: Conjuring Culture in Modern France
The argotic term Thomas used to talk about the revelation of secrets to the lay
public—was “débinage,” which literally translates as “debasement” or “defilement
.” The first recorded instance I have of the specialized usage of the term “
débinage” ...
Graham Matthew Jones, 2007
2
French Today: Language in Its Social Context
Argotic deformations and replacements are used too: collectively all this
equipment is le matos [matos], and in the old days when computers were fed with
cartes perforees, these were known also as bremes. And though what used to be
les ...
3
Mathematics: A Minimal Introduction
The process described above should be viewed as a (generalized concept of)
translation of a proof from L into argotic L. Remark 9.3. As explained in Remark
8.23 one sometimes abusively introduces in metasentences the empty words true
, ...
4
George Steiner: A Reader
It is the sexual and the scatological in close contiguity, love having 'pitched its
mansion in the place of excrement', which energize a substantial portion of taboo,
underground and argotic parlance. It is, very likely, one of the more sensitive ...
5
Humorous Texts: A Semantic and Pragmatic Analysis
Several jab lines from other strands sustain this strand: among these let's note
the allusions in (63) 1 8 la presqu' ile de Lagrenn-Houyer 25 pSche £ la morue
which refer to the argotic meaning of the terms "morue" (prostitute) and "
grenouille" ...
6
Exploring French Text Analysis: Interpretations of National ...
But the article also draws on slang vocabulary to construct an ironic
representation of the 'popular' voice. The use of 'Zizou' is a familiar shortening of
Zinedine Zidane, and, although 'zizanie' is more literary than argotic, the
juxtaposition of the ...
Robert H. Crawshaw, Karin Tusting, 2000
7
Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary ...
Argot, subs,(literary).—See quots. Slang and Cant. Whence argotic = slangy.
1611. Cotgrave, Diet., s.v. Narquois [apparently for narguois]. An impostor,
Counterfeit Rogue . . . also the gibbridge or barbarous language used among
them. 1843.
8
The Aesthetics of Paradoxism (criticism)
Suburb songs (2000) capitalizes the argotic side of language (in the manner of
Gelu Astalos), but adding a personal infusion of billingsgate (gypsy-like). The
verses have their charm, especially in the portraits of genre (“She not only drinks,
but ...
9
Herta M_ller: Politics and Aesthetics
The poem starts with the argotic “Baaaaaa” [Hey dude] and continues in
telegraphic form, with rhyming single-word or elliptical verse structures: “seceta /
Mitica / pierdut vaca, /cautat geaba ma / nu gasit/ trezit sopirla, / mica /indoielnica
/ tare ...
Bettina Brandt, Valentina Glajar, 2013
10
A Bout de Souffle: French Film Guide
... screen for the first time 'since the coming of sound'.74 Equally memorable,
though, is the coexistence of Michel's colourful argotic repertoire (ranging from
the pastiche of American B-movie slang, snippets of Italian: 'ciao' or Spanish: '
amigo', ...
5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ARGOTIC»
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argotic is used in the context of the following news items.
The Tyranny of Courage
But where an individual elects to differ from this argotic and uncivilised order – given the same circumstances of power and money – those ... «THISDAY Live, May 15»
With new genderless honorific, the Oxford English Dictionary looks …
But given that the OED, which sets the standards for proper and argotic usage of language in the UK, is contemplating its inclusion in the ... «Newstalk 106-108 fm, May 15»
POND: “I just remember lots of late nights…”
... help but revel in the clattering cymbal-filled conclusion to 'Heroic Shart', a song whose gritty, echoing theatrics well suit its dirtily argotic title, ... «DIY Magazine, Jan 15»
Patrick Modiano: A Worthy Winner at Last
He wrote a disciplined classical French prose that was a far cry from the fashionable word-plays of the day while also shunning the argotic ... «Asharq Alawsat English, Oct 14»
Origins of slang, jargon and argot
... from the ancient language of the gipsies, which testifies to the part which these vagabonds played in the formation of the Argotic community. «Wired, Jan 13»
