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.

Slayer Slang
Author Michael Adams
Subject(s) Buffyverse
Genre(s) academic publication, Media Study
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date 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

Contents

[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.

Chapter Title
Intro
"Introduction" (by Jane Espenson)
01
"Slayer Slang"
02
"Making Slayer Slang"
03
"Studying the Micro-Histories of Words"
04
"Ephemeral Language"
GLOSSARY
"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?'".. [1]

  • 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."..[2]

  • 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Very out of date 1997 Mar 10 Whedon Welcome to the Hellmouth "[Buffy:] 'Deal with that outfit for a moment.'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.'"..[3]

  • cuddle-monkey n

Male lover 1998 Feb 10 Noxon Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered "Every woman in Sunnydale wants to make me her cuddle-monkey."..[4]

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^  - Slayer Slang: A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Lexicon (Hardback 2003), page 142.
  2. ^  - Slayer Slang: A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Lexicon (Hardback 2003), page 145.
  3. ^  - Slayer Slang: A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Lexicon (Hardback 2003), page 160.
  4. ^  - Slayer Slang: A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Lexicon (Hardback 2003), page 166.

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Buffyverse academic books


Buffyverse academic books in alphabetical order.

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