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Languages : en
Pages : 314
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Blackguardiana; or, a Dictionary of rogues, bawds ... &c., &c. Illustrated with eighteen portraits, etc. [By James Caulfield.]
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Languages : en
Pages : 314
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Blackguardiana: Or, A Dictionary of Rogues ...
Author: James CaulfieldPublisher:
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries
Author: Julie ColemanPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191565253
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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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.
Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous English Literature
Author: Samuel HalkettPublisher: Edinburgh : Oliver and Boyd.
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Category : Anonyms and pseudonyms, English
Languages : en
Pages : 508
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Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous English Literature
Author: Samuel HalkettPublisher: Ardent Media
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Languages : en
Pages : 496
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A Dictionary of the Anonymous and Pseudonymous Literature of Great Britain
Author: Samuel HalkettPublisher:
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Category : Anonyms and pseudonyms, English
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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A General Catalogue of Books
Author: Bernard QuaritchPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1156
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Meaning in the History of English
Author: Andreas H. JuckerPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027270899
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 358
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Uncovering the meaning of individual words or entire texts is a complex process that needs to take into consideration the multiple interactions of linguistic organization including orthography, morphology, syntax and, ultimately, pragmatics. The papers in this volume pay close attention to these interactions and assess both the details of the texts and entire texts within their relevant contexts. All the papers deal with data from the history of English, and they cover a wide range from Old English manuscripts to Early Modern English letters and medical texts to Late Modern English cant vocabulary.
Research Handbook on Law and Emotion
Author: Susan A. BandesPublisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1788119088
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 640
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This illuminating Research Handbook analyses the role that emotions play and ought to play in legal reasoning and practice, rejecting the simplistic distinction between reason and emotion.
A Catalogue of Books, in All Classes of Literature, Many of Them Rare, Valuable and Curious
Author: Bernard QuaritchPublisher:
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Category : Rare books
Languages : en
Pages : 458
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