Studs Terkel discusses the English language with Bergen Evans ; part 1
Studs Terkel discusses the English language with Bergen Evans, television host, writer, and Northwestern University professor of English.
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Studs Terkel discusses the English language with Bergen Evans, television host, writer, and Northwestern University professor of English.
Nelson Algren, Nathan Kantrowitz, and David Maurer discuss language and criminal subculture, including the development of institutional slang at different prisons, the nature of drug addiction and its influence on criminal language and vocabulary, and the myth of the criminal mind. Includes an Interview with an inmate at a Chicago prison.