A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries
Volume 2: 1785-1858
Series: A History Of Cant and Slang Dictionaries;
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Product details:
- Edition number and title 1785-1858 v. 2
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 9 December 2004
- ISBN 9780199254705
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages352 pages
- Size 242x163x24 mm
- Weight 668 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 1 halftone 0
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Short description:
The second volume (volume 1, 1567-1785, published in January 2004) of Julie Coleman's fascinating and entertaining history of the uses and the recording of slang and criminal cant takes the story from 1785 to 1858 and explores its first manifestations in the USA and Australia.
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The second volume of Julie Coleman's fascinating and entertaining history of the uses and the recording of slang and criminal cant takes the story from 1785 to 1858 and explores its first manifestations in the USA and Australia.
During this period glossaries of cant are thrown into the shade by dictionaries of slang, which now include the language of thieves and cover a broad spectrum of non-standard English. Cant represented a practical threat to life and property. Slang, the author reveals, was a threat to the moral core of society, insidiously seductive to a wide section of the public.
Julie Coleman shows how Francis Grose's Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue revolutionised lexicography of non-standard English. She explores the earliest Australian and American slang glossaries, whose authors included the thrice-transported James Hardy Vaux and George Matsell, New York City's first chief of police.
A fascinating glimpse into a world in which a secret language was at once menacing and thrilling. A scholarly study, scrupulously researched and statistically informative; it is also entertaining to read.
Table of Contents:
Francis Grose
Dictionaries Based on Grose's
Humphry Tristram Potter
James Hardy Vaux
Pierce Egan
John Bee
Minor British Cant and Slang Lists
Some American Cant and Slang Lists
College Dictionaries
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