Languages and jargons
Subtitle: contributions to a social history of language
By: edited by Peter Burke and Roy Porter.
Contributors: Burke, Peter.; Porter, Roy, 1946-
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Cambridge [England]; Cambridge, Mass., USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
Subjects: Jargon (Terminology); Languages, Secret.
Other titles: Languages & jargons
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Peter Burke; title: The jargon of the schools / Peter Burke; title: Perplex't with tough names : the uses of medical jargon / Roy Porter; title: Anti-language or jargon? : canting in the English underworld in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Lee Beier; title: Caló : the "secret" language of the Gypsies of Spain / John Geipel; title: Masonics, metaphor, and misogyny : a discourse of marginality? / Marie Mulvey Roberts; title: Jargon of class : rhetoric and leadership in British labour politics, 1830-1880 / Timothy R. Burns; title: The jargon of Indostan : an exploration of jargon in Urdu and East India Company English / Javed Majeed.