Prison Argot A Sociolinguistic and Lexicographic Study

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Pub. Date: 2001-11-06
Publisher(s): UPA
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Summary

Prison Argot is Gilbert L. Encinas' study of the different elements of prison language.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
vi
Part One: The Environment 1(46)
Introduction to Prison Argot
3(4)
Prison Environment & the Law
7(6)
The Prison Industry
13(16)
Theoretical Perspectives and Framework
29(4)
Social Structure
33(4)
Summary
37(10)
Part Two: The Language 47(40)
Sociolinguistics
49(14)
Discourse Analysis
63(14)
The Argot Lexicon
77(10)
Conclusion Assessment of Argot 87(6)
References 93(8)
Index 101

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