Secret Language: Codes, Tricks, Spies, Thieves, and Symbols

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This title is about language designed to mean what it does not seem to mean. It explores the history and uses of the slangs and argots of schools and trades such as Polari and the languages of ancient cults.

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EAN/ISBN:: 9780199691623
Edition:: Multilingual
Medium:: Paperback
Number of pages:: 340
Publication date:: 2011-09-25
Publisher:: Oxford University Press, U.S.A.

EAN/ISBN:: 9780199691623
Edition:: Multilingual
Medium:: Paperback
Number of pages:: 340
Publication date:: 2011-09-25
Publisher:: Oxford University Press, U.S.A.

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