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 * 1) Drake, G.F. 1980. “The Social Role of Slang.” Language, 63–70. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-08-024696-3.50015-6.

-"I submit that when social psychological factors are taken into account, slang and jargon can be seen as the same behaviour fundamentally - that is, as divergence or convergence of individuals from one group to another." (65)

-"I argue further that the status difference may arrange slang and jargon as different sub-classes of the same behaviour but that for theoretical purposes, the similar cognitive motivations of the two codes take precedence over their status differences." (65)

-"Both jargon and slang arise from the need for differentiation, for the establishment of psychological distinctions between groups." (65)

-"Both low status users of slang and high status users of jargon are primarily interested in the delineation of 'us' and 'them'; the use of affront in doing so in the case of slang is relative and secondary." (65)