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Author Coleman, Julie.

Title A history of cant and slang dictionaries. Volume 2, 1785-1858 / Julie Coleman.

Publication Info. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
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Description 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents v. 1. 1567-1784 -- v. 2. 1785-1858.
Summary 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.
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Subject English language -- Lexicography -- History.
English language -- Lexicography.
History.
English language -- Slang -- Lexicography.
English language -- Slang.
Lexicography.
Cant -- Great Britain -- Lexicography.
Cant.
Great Britain.
Lexicography -- Great Britain.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Coleman, Julie. History of cant and slang dictionaries. Volume 2, 1785-1858. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004 9780199254705 0199254702 (DLC) 2004298362 (OCoLC)53393055
ISBN 9780191531194 (electronic book)
0191531197 (electronic book)
1280845759
9781280845758

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