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The Language of Thieves and Vagabonds - 17th and 18th Century Canting Lexicography in England (Hardcover, Reprint 2012)
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The Language of Thieves and Vagabonds - 17th and 18th Century Canting Lexicography in England (Hardcover, Reprint 2012)
Series: Lexicographica. Series Maior
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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 - particulary those appearing in the
Elizabethan period -, while relatively little research has
investigated subsequent canting dictionaries and glossaries. The
aim of the present volume is to fill this gap. The main works on
canting published in the 17th and 18th centuries are analysed in
chapters 3 to 10. The first two chapters provide a necessary
introduction to the investigation carried out in the subsequent
sections, examining the great increase in the numbers of vagabonds
and criminals in England in that period from a sociohistorical
perspective and reviewing the 16th-century English literature about
the underworld. The subsequent eight chapters give a detailed
analysis of the main works on canting which appeared in the second
part of the 17th century and during the whole of the 18th century.
The specific features of each publication are identified, as well
as the method adopted by its author in the compilation of his
dictionary/glossary and the most likely sources of its entries, in
order to determine the degree of novelty and relevance that his
contribution has brought to this field. The final chapter deals
with the evolution in the meaning of the term 'cant' itself in the
period taken into consideration.
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