Fantabulosa : a dictionary of Polari and gay slang

著者

• Baker, Paul

書誌事項

Fantabulosa : a dictionary of Polari and gay slang

Paul Baker

Continuum, 2002

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Polari has been the secret language of gay men and women through the twentieth century. But more than a language, Polari is an attitude. From the prisons and music halls of Edwardian England to American GIs, to the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Polari has been used to laugh, bitch, gossip and cruise. Like all slang, Polari users coined an ever-changing vocabulary. Derived from words used by criminals, circus artists, beggars and prostitutes, it also employed Italian, Yiddish, French, rhyming slang and backslang. Since gay liberation, lesbian and gay slang has become less a language of concealment than a language of specialisation, though the tradition of camp remains. "Fantabulosa" presents a lexicon of Polari and a more general dictionary of lesbian and gay slang. If you don't yet know what vada the bona cartes on the ommee ajax, parkering ninty, a Mexican nightmare or a nellyectomy mean, then this is the book for you.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA60374512
• ISBN:
  • 0826459617
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: London
• ページ数/冊数: xii, 242 p.
• 大きさ: 20 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : PE3727.G39
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Polari--Dictionaries
  • LCSH : English language--Great Britain--Slang--Dictionaries
  • LCSH : Lesbians--Language--Dictionaries
  • LCSH : Gays--Language--Dictionaries.