The Language of Thieves and Vagabonds : : 17th and 18th Century Canting Lexicography in England / / Maurizio Gotti.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999
• VerfasserIn: Gotti, Maurizio,
• Place / Publishing House: Tübingen : : Max Niemeyer Verlag, , [2012]; ©1999
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: Reprint 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Lexicographica. Series Maior : Supplementbände zum Internationalen Jahrbuch für Lexikographie , 94
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (159 p.)

The object of the volume is the analysis of the main dictionaries and glossaries of the canting language (the particular jargon spoken by thieves and vagabonds) that appeared in the 17th and 18th centuries. The scholars' attention has mostly concentrated on the earliest publications - particula...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Chapter 1. The English Underworld in the 16th–18th Centuries
• Chapter 2. Early Canting Literature
• Chapter 3. The New Canting Terms Reported by Richard Head
• Chapter 4. The Canting Terms of Coles’ Dictionary
• Chapter 5. Β.E.’s Innovative Approach
• Chapter 6. The Canting Component of The Ladies Dictionary
• Chapter 7. Alexander Smith’s Thieves New Canting Dictionary
• Chapter 8. Lexical Additions in A New Canting Dictionary
• Chapter 9. John Poulter’s Canting Expressions
• Chapter 10. Francis Grose’s Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
• Chapter 11. The Evolution of the Concept of Cant in the 17th and 18th Centuries
• Appendices
• Bibliography
• Summaries
• Indexes