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Languages and Jargons is a contribution to the social history of language. This volume is particularly concerned with the special semi-private languages, dialects or jargons developed by different social groups, whether they are professions, like lawyers, doctors and teachers, voluntary associations like the Masons, social classes, or groups on the margin of society, such as beggars or Gypsies.
The contributors are concerned to describe these jargons as they were spoken in particular places and times, to analyse their functions (which range from keeping secrets from outsiders to reinforcing a sense of collective identity), and to account for change over time. They also study the relations between these forms of speech and their speakers and the outside world - the rejection of jargon, the domestication of technical terms, and the transformation of former jargons into ordinary languages. The volume is mainly concerned with different forms of English from the 16th to the 20th century, but some contributors range further afield, from Calo to Urdu.
Languages and Jargons will be of particular interest to students and scholars in social and cultural history, linguistics and sociolinguistics, and anthropology.
The contributors are concerned to describe these jargons as they were spoken in particular places and times, to analyse their functions (which range from keeping secrets from outsiders to reinforcing a sense of collective identity), and to account for change over time. They also study the relations between these forms of speech and their speakers and the outside world - the rejection of jargon, the domestication of technical terms, and the transformation of former jargons into ordinary languages. The volume is mainly concerned with different forms of English from the 16th to the 20th century, but some contributors range further afield, from Calo to Urdu.
Languages and Jargons will be of particular interest to students and scholars in social and cultural history, linguistics and sociolinguistics, and anthropology.
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"Scholarly and wide–ranging contributions consider the different functions of jargon and the overlap where a separate language may decline or even emerge ... I hope that the editors will set out on a fourth journey of linguistic exploration in due course." Times Higher Education Supplement
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"The idea of introducing historical detail and empirical rigour into the field of discourse pragmatics is both exciting and timely." Discourse and Society
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Peter Burke, Emmanuel College, Cambridge
Roy Porter, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine
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- EditorePolity Pr
- Data di pubblicazione1995
- ISBN 10 0745612792
- ISBN 13 9780745612799
- RilegaturaCopertina rigida
- Numero edizione2
- Numero di pagine216
- RedattoreBurke Peter, Porter Roy
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