Languages and jargons : contributions to a social history of language / edited by Peter Burke and Roy Porter.
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TextPublication details: Cambridge [England] ; Cambridge, Mass., USA : Polity Press, 1995.Description: vii, 216 pages. : illustrations. ; 24 cmISBN: - 0745612792 (acidfree paper)
- Languages & jargons [Spine title]
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- P409 .L36 1995
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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.
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