19.3168, Books: Discipline of Linguistics: Coleman

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Title: A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries 
Subtitle: Volume III: 1859-1936 
Publication Year: 2008 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199549375 


Author: Julie Coleman

Hardback: ISBN:  9780199549375 Pages: 520 Price: U.K. £ 75.00


Abstract:

This book continues Julie Coleman's acclaimed history of dictionaries of
English slang and cant. It describes the increasingly systematic and
scholarly way in which such terms were recorded and classified in the UK,
the USA, Australia, and elsewhere, and the huge growth in the publication
of and public appetite for dictionaries, glossaries, and guides to the
distinctive vocabularies of different social groups, classes, districts,
regions, and nations. Dr. Coleman describes the origins of words and
phrases and explores their history. By copious example she shows how they
cast light on everyday life across the globe - from settlers in Canada and
Australia and cockneys in London to gang-members in New York and soldiers
fighting in the Boer and First World Wars - as well as on the operations of
the narcotics trade and the entertainment business and the lives of those
attending American colleges and British public schools.

The slang lexicographers were a colourful bunch. Those featured in this
book include spiritualists, aristocrats, socialists, journalists,
psychiatrists, school-boys, criminals, hoboes, police officers, and a
serial bigamist. One provided the inspiration for Robert Lewis Stevenson's
Long John Silver. Another was allegedly killed by a pork pie. 

Julie Coleman's account will interest historians of language, crime,
poverty, sexuality, and the criminal underworld. 



Linguistic Field(s): Discipline of Linguistics


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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