A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries: Volume III: 1859-1936

by Julie Coleman

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199549370
• ISBN13: 9780199549375
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.2" x 9.1"