Download or read book Language! written by Jonathon Green and published by Atlantic Books (UK). This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work, Jonathon Green traces the development of slang and its trajectory through society, and offers an impassioned argument for its defence. Beginning, at least in recorded terms, in the gutter and the thieves' tavern, and displayed only in a few criminological pamphlets, slang has made its way up and out: across social classes and into every medium.