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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">global-journal-of-human-social-science-g-linguistics-education</journal-id>
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<journal-title>Global Journal of Human-Social Science - G: Linguistics &amp; Education</journal-title>
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<issn publication-format="print">0975-587X</issn>
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<article-title>The Sociolinguistic Features of Gangster Argot in The Godfather</article-title>
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<contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Zheng</surname><given-names>Yang</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1" />
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<aff id="aff1">CHINA, Shanghai Jiao Tong University</aff>
<pub-date publication-format="electronic" date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2017-01-15">
<day>15</day>
<month>01</month>
<year>2017</year>
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<volume>17</volume>
<issue>G7</issue>
<abstract><p>Modern linguists reached an agreement on the argument that language capability makes human species unique among all group-living species on the planet, so it can be hypothesized that a language could not survive if it were disconnected from interpersonal relations. Despite a well entrenched consensus on language equality among modern linguists, there is an intangible pyramid of languages due to linguistic discrimination. Gangster argot, which is subjected to a subliminal “censorship” from the vast majority of people, has seldom been considered as a decent and valuable topic in the field of modern linguistic studies. In view that The Godfather is exemplary of the way Mafia members speak in real-life scenarios, this novel is sampled as an optimal literary discourse to study what makes gangster argot different from ordinary speech. On the basis of literary specimens excerpted from the novel, this research concludes that gangster argot, which juxtaposes conciseness with confidentiality, is characteristic of adaptive resilience, absorptive capacity, and provocative rhetoric</p></abstract>
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<p>Modern linguists reached an agreement on the argument that language capability makes human species unique among all group-living species on the planet, so it can be hypothesized that a language could not survive if it were disconnected from interpersonal relations. Despite a well entrenched consensus on language equality among modern linguists, there is an intangible pyramid of languages due to linguistic discrimination. Gangster argot, which is subjected to a subliminal “censorship” from the vast majority of people, has seldom been considered as a decent and valuable topic in the field of modern linguistic studies. In view that The Godfather is exemplary of the way Mafia members speak in real-life scenarios, this novel is sampled as an optimal literary discourse to study what makes gangster argot different from ordinary speech. On the basis of literary specimens excerpted from the novel, this research concludes that gangster argot, which juxtaposes conciseness with confidentiality, is characteristic of adaptive resilience, absorptive capacity, and provocative rhetoric</p>
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