Julie Coleman

List of John Benjamins publications in which Julie Coleman is involved.

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Lexicology, Semantics and Lexicography: Selected papers from the Fourth G. L. Brook Symposium, Manchester, August 1998

Edited by Julie Coleman and Christian Kay

The papers in this volume show the range and direction of current work in historical semantics and word-studies. There is a strong focus throughout on semantic change and lexical innovation, interpreted within a sociolinguistic, cultural or textual context. Many of the papers draw on the remarkable… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 194] 2000. xiv, 249 pp.

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Coleman, Julie 2011 Online dictionaries of English slang Words in Dictionaries and History: Essays in honour of R.W. McConchie, Timofeeva, Olga and Tanja Säily (eds.), pp. 109–128 | Article

This paper presents a range of online dictionaries of English slang, and considers their search facilities, coverage and reliability, as well as practical factors involved in setting up and maintaining these resources. A selection of slang terms from Britain and the United States is used to explore… read more

Coleman, Julie 2007 Howard N. Rose’s Thesaurus of Slang (1934): Its purpose, structure, contents, reliability, and sources Historiographia Linguistica 34:2/3, pp. 351–361 | Article

This paper is a re-examination of Howard N. Rose’s Thesaurus of Slang (1934): of its purpose, structure, contents, reliability, and sources. Contemporary reviewers were largely unimpressed, and their criticisms are also considered. Despite its undoubtedly poor quality, Rose’s work provides some… read more

Coleman, Julie 2004 Cant and slang dictionaries: A statistical approach New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics: Selected papers from 12 ICEHL, Glasgow, 21–26 August 2002, Kay, Christian, Carole Hough and Irené Wotherspoon (eds.), pp. 41–47 | Article

Coleman, Julie 2000 Strange Linguists: the Cant and Slang Dictionary Tradition Lexicology, Semantics and Lexicography: Selected papers from the Fourth G. L. Brook Symposium, Manchester, August 1998, Coleman, Julie and Christian Kay (eds.), pp. 69–86 | Article