Languages and jargons : contributions to a social history of language /
Languages and jargons : contributions to a social history of language /
Languages & jargons
edited by Peter Burke and Roy Porter.
- Cambridge [England] ; Cambridge, Mass., USA : Polity Press, 1995.
- vii, 216 pages. : illustrations. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
0745612792 (acidfree paper)
95035965
Jargon (Terminology)
Languages, Secret.
P409 / .L36 1995
306.4/4
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
0745612792 (acidfree paper)
95035965
Jargon (Terminology)
Languages, Secret.
P409 / .L36 1995
306.4/4