Dark tongues : the art of rogues and riddlers /

"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 comm...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Heller-Roazen, Daniel
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Zone Books, 2013.
Subjects:	Jargon (Terminology) Cant. Languages, Secret. Poetics. Historical linguistics. Anthropological linguistics. Literature > Philosophy.