Readership: All those interested in slang; history of English, American, and Australian; English dictionaries; social history; popular literature, euphemism; censorship
Julie Coleman, Professor of English Language, University of Leicester
"The foremost achievement of the four completed volumes of Coleman's History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries is simply that they offer an accurate and comprehensive survey of so much material, and make sense of such complex traditions... A notice of the first voluem in Language (Farquharson 2007) called it 'a treasure trove of exemplary research': so it is, but it is also a treasure map, which will guide all work in the field for the forseeable future." - John Considine, Historiographia Linguistica 38:3
Introduction 1: Eric partridge's Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English 2: Dictionaries of Military Slang 3: Dictionaries of British Slang 4: Legacies of Empire and Declarations of Independence: Dictionaries of the Slang of Newer Nations 5: Dictionaries of American Slang 6: Glossaries of School and College Slang 7: Dictionaries of Race and Music 8: Dictionaries of Youth 9: Glossaries of Sexuality 10: Dictionaries of Drugs Slang 11: Dictionaries of Crime and Incarceration 12: Dictionaries of new Technologies: Citizens' Band Radio and Computers 13: Conclusion Bibliography Subject Index Word Index
