Slayer Slang: A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Lexicon
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Slayer Slang: A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Lexicon is an academic publication relating to the fictional Buffyverse established by TV series, Buffy and Angel.
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| Author | Michael Adams |
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| Subject(s) | Buffyverse |
| Genre(s) | academic publication, Media Study |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
| Released | July 1, 2003 |
| Pages | 320 |
| Size and weight | 9.6 x 6.4 x 1.1 inches / 1.39 pounds |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-19-516033-9 |
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[edit] Book description
A distinguishing feature of the series, Buffy was the way in which the show's writers play with language: making new words, changing existing ones, and turning common usage around. Michael Adams argues this creates a resonant lexicon reflecting power in both youth culture and television on the changes in American slang.
[edit] Contents
Michael Adams starts the book with a synopsis of the program's history and a defense of ephemeral language. The main body of the work is the detailed glossary of slayer slang, annotated with dialogue. 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.
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"Introduction" (by Jane Espenson) |
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"Slayer Slang" |
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"Making Slayer Slang" |
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"Studying the Micro-Histories of Words" |
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"Ephemeral Language" |
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"Slayer Slang: Glossary" |
[edit] Glossary examples
A few examples from the Slayer Slang glossary:
- bitca n
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
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."..
- carbon-dated adj
Very out of date 1997 Mar 10 Whedon Welcome to the Hellmouth "[Buffy:] 'Deal with that outfit for a moment.'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
Male lover 1998 Feb 10 Noxon Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered "Every woman in Sunnydale wants to make me her cuddle-monkey."..
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ - Slayer Slang: A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Lexicon (Hardback 2003), page 142.
- ^ - Slayer Slang: A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Lexicon (Hardback 2003), page 145.
- ^ - Slayer Slang: A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Lexicon (Hardback 2003), page 160.
- ^ - Slayer Slang: A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Lexicon (Hardback 2003), page 166.
[edit] External links
| Buffyverse academic books | ||
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The Aesthetics of Culture in BtVS | Bite Me | Blood Relations | BtVS and Philosophy | Buffy (BFI) | Fighting The Forces | Five Seasons of "Angel" | Joss Whedon: The Genius Behind Buffy | Reading Angel | Reading the Vampire Slayer | Seven Seasons of Buffy | Sex and the Slayer | Slayer Slang | Televised Morality | What Would Buffy Do? | Why Buffy Matters |
