A History Of Cant And Slang Dictionaries 1785 1858

Author : Julie Coleman
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191565250

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A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries by Julie Coleman Pdf

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.

Author : Julie Coleman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2004-12-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199254705

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A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries by Julie Coleman Pdf

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.

Author : Julie Coleman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Cant
ISBN : 0199254710

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A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries: 1785-1858 by Julie Coleman Pdf

Author : Julie Coleman
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191563584

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A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries by Julie Coleman Pdf

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.

Author : Julie Coleman
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199557098

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A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries by Julie Coleman Pdf

This is the first volume in a complete history of the documentation of English cant and slang from 1567 to the present. It gives unparalleled insights into the early history of slang, the people who used it, and how and why it was recorded. It also provides unusual and unexpected insights into the underworlds of early modern England.

Author : Julie Coleman
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008-11-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199557101

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A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries by Julie Coleman Pdf

The second volume (volume 1, 1567-1784, published in January 2004) 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.

Author : Julie Coleman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Cant
ISBN : 0191719889

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A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries by Julie Coleman Pdf

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, exploring its first manifestations in the USA and Australia.

Author : Julie Coleman
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199254710

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A History of Cant and Sland Dictionaries by Julie Coleman Pdf

HISTORICAL & COMPARATIVE LINGUISTICS. The second volume (volume 1, 1567-1784, published in January 2004) 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.

Author : Małgorzata Kowalczyk
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781009346870

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Borrowings in Informal American English by Małgorzata Kowalczyk Pdf

Based on a rich range of sources, this pioneering book provides a comprehensive description of informal borrowings in American English.

Author : Julie Coleman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317934769

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Global English Slang by Julie Coleman Pdf

Global English Slang brings together nineteen key international experts and provides a timely and essential overview of English slang around the world today. The book illustrates the application of a range of different methodologies to the study of slang and demonstrates the interconnection between the different sub-fields of linguistics. A key argument throughout is that slang is a function played by specific words or phrases rather than a characteristic inherent in the words themselves- what is slang in one context is not slang in another. The volume also challenges received wisdom on the nature of slang: that it is short-lived and that slang is restricted to verbal language. With an introduction by editor Julie Coleman, the topics covered range from Inner City New York slang and Hip Hop Slang to UK student slang and slang in Scotland. Authors also explore slang in Jamaica, Australia, New Zealand, India and Hong Kong and the influence of English slang on Norwegian, Italian and Japanese. A final section looks at slang and new media including online slang usage, and the possibilities offered by the internet to document verbal and gestural slang. Global English Slang is an essential reference for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers working in the areas of lexicology, slang and World Englishes.

Author : Merja Kytö,Erik Smitterberg
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027261434

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Late Modern English by Merja Kytö,Erik Smitterberg Pdf

The past few decades have witnessed an unprecedented surge of interest in the language of the Late Modern English period. Late Modern English: Novel Encounters covers a broad range of topics addressed by international experts in fields such as phonology, morphology, syntax, lexis, spelling and pragmatics; this makes the collection attractive to any scholar or student interested in the history of English. Each of the four thematic sections in the book represents a core area of Late Modern English studies. This division makes it easy for specialists to access the chapters that are of immediate relevance to their own work. An introductory chapter establishes connections between chapters within as well as between the four sections. The volume highlights recent advances in research methodology such as spelling normalization and other areas of corpus linguistics; several contributions also shed light on the interplay of internal and external factors in language change.

Author : Michael Adams
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199986538

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Slang by Michael Adams Pdf

Slang, writes Michael Adams, is poetry on the down low, and sometimes lowdown poetry on the down low, but rarely, if ever, merely lowdown. It is the poetry of everyday speech, the people's poetry, and it deserves attention as language playing on the cusp of art. In Slang: The People's Poetry, Adams covers this perennially interesting subject in a serious but highly engaging way, illuminating the fundamental question "What is Slang" and defending slang--and all forms of nonstandard English--as integral parts of the American language. Why is an expression like "bed head" lost in a lexical limbo, found neither in slang nor standard dictionaries? Why are snow-boarding terms such as "fakie," "goofy foot," "ollie" and "nollie" not considered slang? As he addresses these and other lexical curiosities, Adams reveals that slang is used in part to define groups, distinguishing those who are "down with it" from those who are "out of it." Slang is also a rebellion against the mainstream. It often irritates those who color within the lines--indeed, slang is meant to irritate, sometimes even to shock. But slang is also inventive language, both fun to make and fun to use. Rather than complain about slang as "bad" language, Adams urges us to celebrate slang's playful resistance to the commonplace and to see it as the expression of an innate human capacity, not only for language, but for poetry.

Author : Julie Coleman
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191630729

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The Life of Slang by Julie Coleman Pdf

This book traces the development of English slang from the earliest records to the latest tweet. It explores why and how slang is used, and traces the development of slang in English-speaking nations around the world. The records of the Old Bailey and machine-searchable newspaper collections provide a wealth of new information about historical slang, while blogs and tweets provide us with a completely new perspective on contemporary slang. Based on inside information from real live slang users as well as the best scholarly sources, this book is guaranteed to teach you some new words that you shouldn't use in polite company. Teachers, politicians, broadcasters, and parents characterize the language of teenagers as sloppy, repetitive, and unintelligent, but these complaints are nothing new. In 1906, an Australian journalist overheard some youths on a street-corner: Things will be bally slow till next pay-day. I've done in nearly all my spond. Here, now; cheese it, or I'll lob one in your lug. Lend us a cigarette. Lend it; oh, no, I don't part. Look out, here's a bobby going to tell us to shove along. What, he wondered, was the world coming to. For the 411, read on ...

Author : Andreas H. Jucker,Daniela Landert,Annina Seiler,Nicole Studer-Joho
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027270894

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Meaning in the History of English by Andreas H. Jucker,Daniela Landert,Annina Seiler,Nicole Studer-Joho Pdf

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.

Author : Sarah Ogilvie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107021839

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Words of the World by Sarah Ogilvie Pdf

Demonstrates that the Oxford English Dictionary is an international product in both its content and its making.