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. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0745612792 (acidfree paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>95035965  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Jargon (Terminology)<br/>Languages, Secret.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>P409  / .L36 1995 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>306.4/4