Languages and jargons : contributions to a social history of language / edited by Peter Burke and Roy Porter.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Burke, Peter.

Porter, Roy, 1946-2002.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jargon (Terminology).

Languages, Secret.

Physical Description:

vii, 216 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Polity Press, 1995.

Summary:

'Languages & Jargons' is a contribution to the social history of language. This volume is particularly concerned with the special semiprivate languages, dialects or jargons developed by different social groups, whether they are professions, like lawyers, doctors, and teachers, voluntary associations like the Masons, social classes, or groups on the margin of society, such as beggars or Gypsies.

Contents:

Introduction / Peter Burke

The jargon of the schools / Peter Burke

Perplex't with tough names : the uses of medical jargon / Roy Porter

Anti-language or jargon? : canting in the English underworld in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Lee Beier

Caló : the "secret" language of the Gypsies of Spain / John Geipel

Masonics, metaphor, and misogyny : a discourse of marginality? / Marie Mulvey Roberts

Jargon of class : rhetoric and leadership in British labour politics, 1830-1880 / Timothy R. Burns

The jargon of Indostan : an exploration of jargon in Urdu and East India Company English / Javed Majeed.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0745612792

OCLC:

33043055