Tracing lexical productivity and creativity in the British media: The Chavs and the Chav-Nots

Renouf, Antoinette

doi:10.1075/sfsl.58.12ren

In:Lexical Creativity, Texts and Contexts
Edited by Judith Munat
[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics 58] 2007
► pp. 61–89

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Tracing lexical productivity and creativity in the British media: The Chavs and the Chav-Nots

Antoinette Renouf | University of Central England

Published online: 6 November 2007

https://doi.org/10.1075/sfsl.58.12ren

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