Background
Connie Eble was born on November 20, 1942 in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. She is the daughter of John C. Eble and Florence (Brann) Eble.
7300 St Charles Ave, New Orleans, LA 70118, USA
Connie Eble received her Bachelor of Arts from St. Mary’s Dominican College in New Orleans in 1964.
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Connie Eble earned her Master of Arts in 1967 and her Ph.D. in 1970, both from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
(One of the most extensive collections of college slang wo...)
One of the most extensive collections of college slang words ever published. Compiled by a foremost linguist, the listings are supported by analysis and explanations giving derivation and use of words and phrases. Used as a text book in college linguistic classes. Illustrated with amusing expressive cartoons.
https://www.amazon.com/College-Slang-101-definitive-meanings/dp/0930753097/?tag=2022091-20
1989
(Slang is often seen as a lesser form of language, one tha...)
Slang is often seen as a lesser form of language, one that is simply not as meaningful or important as its 'regular' counterpart. Connie Eble refutes this notion as she reveals the sources, poetry, symbolism, and subtlety of informal slang expressions. In Slang and Sociability, Eble explores the words and phrases that American college students use casually among themselves. Based on more than 10,000 examples submitted by Eble's students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill over the last twenty years, the book shows that slang is dynamic vocabulary that cannot be dismissed as deviant or marginal.
https://www.amazon.com/Slang-Sociability-Group-Language-Oxford-Westminster-ebook/dp/B00AWB5HUK/?tag=2022091-20
1996
Connie Eble was born on November 20, 1942 in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. She is the daughter of John C. Eble and Florence (Brann) Eble.
Connie Eble received her Bachelor of Arts from St. Mary’s Dominican College in New Orleans in 1964. She also earned her Master of Arts in 1967 and her Ph.D. in 1970, both from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Connie Eble was an instructor at the University of Kentucky in Lexington from 1968 to 1971. She then worked at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she began as an assistant professor, then became a professor of English in 1971.
Teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in contemporary English grammar and usage led her to sociolinguistics and to the study of the slang vocabulary of college students. She authored the book "Slang and Sociability: In-Group Language Among College Students" (1996).
Besides, Eble served as Editor of American Speech for ten years and in 2000 brought out two special issues in Louise Pound’s honor to commemorate its diamond anniversary. She has also served as President of the Southeastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL), the South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA), the Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States (LACUS), and the American Dialect Society (ADS), and she has recently completed a term on the Executive Committee of the Dictionary Society of North America (DSNA).
Currently, Connie Eble is the Department of English and Comparative Literature’s long-time linguist at the University of North Carolina, specializing in the history, structure, and current use of the English language. She has also taught English as a Second Language to non-native graduate students at Carolina and also spent a semester teaching English language courses at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
(Slang is often seen as a lesser form of language, one tha...)
1996(One of the most extensive collections of college slang wo...)
1989Connie Eble has been a member of Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States, American Dialect Society, South Atlantic Modern Language Association, and Southeastern Conference on Linguistics.