The Language of Ethnic Conflict : : Social Organization and Lexical Culture / / Irving Lewis Allen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• VerfasserIn: Allen, Irving Lewis,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1983]; ©1983
• Year of Publication: 1983
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; 1. Nicknames for Ethnic Groups --; 2. Terms of Abuse as Chronicles of Intergroup Conflict --; 3. The Historical Lexicon of Ethnic Epithets --; 4. Social Origins of the Vocabulary --; 5. Terms for Marginal Persons and Groups --; Appendix A: Excluded Classes of Related Nicknames --; Appendix B: Annotations --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231885331; 9783110442489
• DOI: 10.7312/alle91760
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Irving Lewis Allen.

Uses nounal epithets or generic nicknames for ethnic persons in American English to address one of the oldest questions in sociology to explore how objective demographic and ecological situations in communities generate culture in general and a lexical culture.