THE NADSAT LANGUAGE OF A CLOCKWORK ORANGE: WATERING DOWN VIOLENCE WITH SLANGGrindstaff, SethTennessee Philological Bulletin
sabog shoe сапог(sapog,“boot”), cfFrenchsabot(“shoe”) sakar sugar сахар(saxar), cfEnglishsaccharine sammy generous "(Good)Samaritan" (Bible Story); Russian "samoye", the most sarky sarcastic English slang, not exclusively nadsat. scoteena beast, cow скотина(skotina...
sabog shoe сапог(sapog,“boot”), cfFrenchsabot(“shoe”) sakar sugar сахар(saxar), cfEnglishsaccharine sammy generous "(Good)Samaritan" (Bible Story); Russian "samoye", the most sarky sarcastic English slang, not exclusively nadsat. scoteena beast, cow скотина(skotina...
Brodsky, like smiling,'the dialect of the tribe. Do you know anythingof its provenance, Branom?' 'Odd bits of old rhyming slang,' said Dr. Branom.. Propaganda.Subliminal penetration.'. Drs. Brodsky and Branom, A Clockwork Orange, page 114.AC Orange...
More precisely, the object of the paper is the "Nadsat" language of the teen protagonist which is a mixture of English and Russian (heavy in slang and borrowings). From culturo-historical viewpoint, the novel written in "Nadsat" during the peak of the Cold War combines two opposing ...