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The Language of Ethnic Conflict : Social Organization and Lexical Culture / Irving Lewis Allen.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1983]Copyright date: ©1983Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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  • 9780231917605
  • 9780231885331
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Nicknames for Ethnic Groups -- 2. Terms of Abuse as Chronicles of Intergroup Conflict -- 3. The Historical Lexicon of Ethnic Epithets -- 4. Social Origins of the Vocabulary -- 5. Terms for Marginal Persons and Groups -- Appendix A: Excluded Classes of Related Nicknames -- Appendix B: Annotations -- References -- Index
Summary: Uses nounal epithets or generic nicknames for ethnic persons in American English to address one of the oldest questions in sociology to explore how objective demographic and ecological situations in communities generate culture in general and a lexical culture.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780231885331

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Nicknames for Ethnic Groups -- 2. Terms of Abuse as Chronicles of Intergroup Conflict -- 3. The Historical Lexicon of Ethnic Epithets -- 4. Social Origins of the Vocabulary -- 5. Terms for Marginal Persons and Groups -- Appendix A: Excluded Classes of Related Nicknames -- Appendix B: Annotations -- References -- Index

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Uses nounal epithets or generic nicknames for ethnic persons in American English to address one of the oldest questions in sociology to explore how objective demographic and ecological situations in communities generate culture in general and a lexical culture.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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