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{{byline|last=Mosser|first=Jason|abstract=Norman Mailer helped define and participate in the counterculture of the 1950s and 1960s, for which his essay “The White Negro” is a seminal historical, cultural, and linguistic source. One way to evaluate the impact of writers on their lives and times is to determine the number of citations they receive in the ''Oxford English Dictionary''. Authors are chosen for the ''OED'' reading program based on their presentation of cross-varieties of English and interesting vocabulary, particularly new coinages. Based on the illustrative quotations attributed to Mailer in the ''Oxford English Dictionary'', 196 matches exist. Mailer, the person and the author, emerges as one of the definitive sources for lexical coinages of his milieu.|url=https://prmlr.us/mr14moss}} | {{byline|last=Mosser|first=Jason|abstract=Norman Mailer helped define and participate in the counterculture of the 1950s and 1960s, for which his essay “The White Negro” is a seminal historical, cultural, and linguistic source. One way to evaluate the impact of writers on their lives and times is to determine the number of citations they receive in the ''Oxford English Dictionary''. Authors are chosen for the ''OED'' reading program based on their presentation of cross-varieties of English and interesting vocabulary, particularly new coinages. Based on the illustrative quotations attributed to Mailer in the ''Oxford English Dictionary'', 196 matches exist. Mailer, the person and the author, emerges as one of the definitive sources for lexical coinages of his milieu.|url=https://prmlr.us/mr14moss}} | ||
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==Works Cited== | ==Works Cited== | ||
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* {{cite book |last=Abbott |first=Jack Henry |date=1981 |title=In the Belly of the Beast: Letters from Prison |url= |location=New York |publisher=Random House |pages= |isbn= |author-link= |ref=harv }} | * {{cite book |last=Abbott |first=Jack Henry |date=1981 |title=In the Belly of the Beast: Letters from Prison |url= |location=New York |publisher=Random House |pages= |isbn= |author-link= |ref=harv }} | ||
* {{cite book |last=Adams |first=Michael |date=2009 |title=Slang: The People's Poetry |url= |location=Oxford |publisher=University of Oxford Press |pages= |isbn= |author-link= |ref=harv }} | * {{cite book |last=Adams |first=Michael |date=2009 |title=Slang: The People's Poetry |url= |location=Oxford |publisher=University of Oxford Press |pages= |isbn= |author-link= |ref=harv }} | ||
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