Slayer Slang
Slayer Slang: A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Lexicon is a 2003 academic publication relating to the fictional Buffyverse established by TV series, Buffy and Angel.
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| Author | Michael Adams |
|---|---|
| Subject | Buffyverse |
| Genre | academic publication, Media Study |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Publication date | July 1, 2003 |
| Pages | 320 |
| ISBN | 0-19-516033-9 |
| OCLC | 51769230 |
| 791.45/72 21 | |
| LC Class | PN1992.77.B84 A34 2003 |
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.
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 |
|---|---|
| "Introduction" (by Jane Espenson) | |
| "Slayer Slang" | |
| "Making Slayer Slang" | |
| "Studying the Micro-Histories of Words" | |
| "Ephemeral Language" | |
| "Slayer Slang: Glossary" |
Glossary examples
A few examples from the Slayer Slang glossary:
- bitca n
- break and enterish adj suitable for crime
- Buffy
- I'll go home and stock up on weapons, slip into something a little more break and enterish.
- carbon-dated adj very out of date
- Buffy
- Deal with that outfit for a moment.
- Giles
- It's dated?
- Buffy
- It's carbon-dated.
— Written by Joss Whedon, "Welcome to the Hellmouth" (10 March 1997), p. 160
- cuddle-monkey n male lover
- Xander
- Every woman in Sunnydale wants to make me her cuddle-monkey.