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Loading... Slayer Slang: A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Lexiconby Michael Adams
   None No current Talk conversations about this book.   ) Karen74Leigh | Sep 4, 2019 |   ) Katya0133 | Feb 9, 2013 |  )1  Bonestcjmom | Jul 23, 2008 | It is concerned with interesting grammatical construction rather than unique demon names, and the scope includes language used in Buffy the vampire Slayer episodes, Angel episodes, as well as language used in associated media material and by identifiable fandom. I enjoyed the initial essays although there was some repetition. The glossary added little, as many of the terms I was interested has already been covered as examples in the essays. (  )1 francescadefreitas | May 20, 2007 |
 Adams’s style gives much appreciated levity to an academic discussion, which after all, is about the words used in a television show about a vampire slayer named Buffy. Scholars from other disciplines, Buffy fans, and undergraduates in popular culture courses will have no difficulty following Adams’s well-illustrated discussions of Slayer slang.  Adams' lexicon is, as Buffy would say in one of her more reflective moods, an egregious example of "ubermarketing".  Michael Adams has written a persuasive book that urges attention to all the language of everyday life.  While the desire to find deeper meaning in Buffy is legitimate and understandable, these lexics (oh, I shiver with my own innovation) really push it.
Michael Adams begins his book with a synopsis of the programme's history and a defence of ephemeral language. He then moves to the main body of the work: a detailed glossary of slayer slang, annotated with actual dialogue and recorded in the style accepted by the American Dialect Society. The book concludes with a bibliography and a lengthy index, a guide to sources (novels based on the show, magazine articles about the show, and language culled from the official posting board) and an appendix of slang-making suffixes. Introduced by Jane Espenson, one of the show's most inventive writers (and herself a linguist), Slayer Slang offers a quintessential example of contemporary youth culture serving as a vehicle for slang. bitca n [AHD4 bitch n in sense 2.a + a] Bitch 1997 Sep 15 Whedon When She Was Bad "[Willow:] 'I mean, why else would she be acting like such a b-i-t-c-h?' [Giles:] 'Willow, I think we're all a little old to be spelling things out.' [Xander:] 'A bitca?'" break and enterish adj [AHD4 sv breaking and entering n + -ish suff in sense 2.a; ] Suitable for crime 1999 Mar 16 Petrie Enemies "I'll go home and stock up on weapons, slip into something a little more break and enterish." [B] carbon-dated adj [fr. AHD4 carbondating + -ed] Very out of date 1997 Mar 10 Whedon Welcome to the Hellmouth "[Buffy:] 'Deal with that outfit for a moment.' [Giles:] 'It's dated?' [Buffy:] 'It's carbon-dated.'" cuddle-monkey n [AHD4 cuddle v + monkey n in sense 2, by analogy fr. RHHDAS (also DAS3 and NTC) sv cuddle bunny 'an affectionate, passionate, or sexually attractive young woman'] Male lover 1998 Feb 10 Noxon Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered "Every woman in Sunnydale wants to make me her cuddle-monkey. No library descriptions found. |
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