Checkschmuck! The Slang of the Chess Player
1971; Duke University Press; Volume: 46; Issue: 3/4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/3087777
ISSN1527-2133
Autores Tópico(s)Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
ResumoHE POPULAR IMAGE of the chess player as a double-domed egghead with all the emotion of an IBM 360 has been modified by the antics of Bobby Fischer, but there is some truth in the idea that tournament chess appeals mainly to the better educated. Certainly not all tournament players are well educated, but in comparison to the general population the percentage of college graduates and students is high. Most tournament lists are sprinkled with PhD's. For this reason, the slang that chess players have created strikes me as especially interesting. Although the language of chess players tends to be much more conservative than that of lower-class groups, in the last few years it has been changing. A good many of the nationally recognized chess masters live in New York City and have a linguistic background influenced by Yiddish or the languages of Eastern Europe. Since most of the better-known masters go on tours across the nation, their speech has both a large audience and great prestige, and so it is widely imitated. Recently a great influx of college students into chess has introduced a number of new words and a liberal
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