An edition of Languages and Jargons
(1995)
Languages and jargons
contributions to a social history of language
by Roy Sydney Porter
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Languages and Jargons: Contributions to a Social History of Language
January 1, 1996, Polity Press
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Languages and jargons: contributions to a social history of language
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Table of Contents
Introduction / Peter Burke
The jargon of the schools / Peter Burke
Perplex't with tough names : the uses of medical jargon / Roy Porter
Anti-language or jargon? : canting in the English underworld in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Lee Beier
Caló : the "secret" language of the Gypsies of Spain / John Geipel
Masonics, metaphor, and misogyny : a discourse of marginality? / Marie Mulvey Roberts
Jargon of class : rhetoric and leadership in British labour politics, 1830-1880 / Timothy R. Burns
The jargon of Indostan : an exploration of jargon in Urdu and East India Company English / Javed Majeed.
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