16.1392, Books: Historical Ling/Lexicography, English: Coleman

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Date: 29-Apr-2005
From: Lowri Jones < lowri.jones at oup.com >
Subject: A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries: Coleman 

	
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Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 10:26:53
From: Lowri Jones < lowri.jones at oup.com >
Subject: A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries: Coleman 
 



Title: A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries 
Subtitle: Volume 2: 1785-1858 
Publication Year: 2005 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-925470-2 


Author: Julie Coleman, University of Leicester

Hardback: ISBN: 0199254702 Pages: 352 Price: U.K. £ 45.00


Abstract:

The second volume of Julie Coleman's fascinating and entertaining history
of the uses and the recording of slang and criminal cant takes the story
from 1785 to 1858 and explores its first manifestations in the USA and
Australia.  

During this period glossaries of cant are thrown into the shade by
dictionaries of slang, which now include the language of thieves and cover
a broad spectrum of non-standard English. Cant represented a practical
threat to life and property. Slang, the author reveals, was a threat to the
moral core of society, insidiously seductive to a wide section of the public.  

Julie Coleman shows how Francis Grose's Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
revolutionised lexicography of non-standard English. She explores the
earliest Australian and American slang glossaries, whose authors included
the thrice-transported James Hardy Vaux and George Matsell, New York City's
first chief of police. 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Lexicography
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): English (ENG)


Written In: English  (ENG)
	
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