A history of cant and slang dictionaries, Volume 2, 1785-1858:
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Main Author: Coleman, Julie 1966- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2004
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and indexes
v. 1. 1567-1784 -- v. 2. 1785-1858
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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (1 v.)
ISBN:0191531197
1280845759
9780191531194
9781280845758

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