Author: Francis Grose
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Lexicon Balatronicum
Author: Francis Grose
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries
Author: Julie Coleman
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191565253
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
The second volume of Julie Coleman's entertaining and revealing history of the recording and uses of slang and criminal cant takes the story from 1785 to 1858, and explores their manifestations in the United States of America and Australia. During this period glossaries of cant were thrown into the shade by dictionaries of slang, which now covered a broad spectrum of non-standard English, including the language of thieves. Julie Coleman shows how Francis Grose's Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue revolutionized the lexicography of the underworld. She explores the compilation and content of the earliest Australian and American slang glossaries, whose authors included the thrice-transported James Hardy Vaux and the legendary George Matsell, New York City's first chief of police, whose The Secret Language of Crime: The Rogue's Lexicon informed the script of Martin Scorcese's film Gangs of New York. Cant represented a tangible danger to life and property, but slang threatened to undermine good behaviour and social morality. Julie Coleman shows how and why they were at once repellent and seductive. Her fascinating account casts fresh light on language and life in some of the darker regions of Great Britain and the English-speaking world.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191565253
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
The second volume of Julie Coleman's entertaining and revealing history of the recording and uses of slang and criminal cant takes the story from 1785 to 1858, and explores their manifestations in the United States of America and Australia. During this period glossaries of cant were thrown into the shade by dictionaries of slang, which now covered a broad spectrum of non-standard English, including the language of thieves. Julie Coleman shows how Francis Grose's Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue revolutionized the lexicography of the underworld. She explores the compilation and content of the earliest Australian and American slang glossaries, whose authors included the thrice-transported James Hardy Vaux and the legendary George Matsell, New York City's first chief of police, whose The Secret Language of Crime: The Rogue's Lexicon informed the script of Martin Scorcese's film Gangs of New York. Cant represented a tangible danger to life and property, but slang threatened to undermine good behaviour and social morality. Julie Coleman shows how and why they were at once repellent and seductive. Her fascinating account casts fresh light on language and life in some of the darker regions of Great Britain and the English-speaking world.
The Slang Dictionary
Author: John Camden Hotten
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
The Slang Dictionary; Or, The Vulgar Words, Street Phrases, and "fast" Expressions of High and Low Society
Author: John Camden Hotten
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Book Auction Records
Author: Frand Karslake
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Book auctions
Languages : en
Pages : 1172
Book Description
A priced and annotated annual record of London, New York and Edinburgh book-auctions.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Book auctions
Languages : en
Pages : 1172
Book Description
A priced and annotated annual record of London, New York and Edinburgh book-auctions.
A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, And, Vulgar Words
Author: John C. Hotten
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary Historical and Comparative of the Heterodox Speech of all Classes of Society for More than Three Hundred Years with Synonyms in English, French, German, Italian, etc.
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 146553332X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 6975
Book Description
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 146553332X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 6975
Book Description
A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words
Author: John Camden Hotten
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
“A” Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant and Vulgar Words, Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London, the Universitites of Oxford and Cambridge, the Houses of Parliament, the Dens of St. Giles, and the Places of St. James
Author:
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present
Author: John Stephen Farmer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description