Argot and Slang (Annotated)

Albert Barrère's Argot and Slang is a rigorous exploration of non-standard speech, mapping the inventive vocabularies of thieves, soldiers, workers, students, and urban subcultures across French and English usage. More than a mere glossary, it situates cant and colloquial expression within nineteenth-century philological curiosity, when scholars increasingly recognized slang as a living record of ...