Dark Tongues: The Art of Rogues and Riddlers

by Daniel Heller-Roazen

An exploration of secret languages, moving among hermetic artificial tongues as diverse as criminal jargons and divine speech.

Dark Tongues constitutes a sustained exploration of a perplexing fact that has never received the attention it deserves. Wherever human beings share a language, they also strive to make from it something new: a cryptic idiom, built from the grammar that they know, which will allow them to communicate...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 193540833X
• ISBN13: 9781935408338
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Zone Books
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher