Dark tongues : the art of rogues and riddlers
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236 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English

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From the Madeline Kripke Collection of the History of Lexicography.,InU
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-232) and index.
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"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 communicate in secrecy. Such hidden languages come in many shapes. They may be playful or serious, children's games or adults' work. They may be as impenetrable as foreign tongues, or slightly different from the idioms from which they spring, or barely perceptible, their existence being the subject of uncertain, even unlikely, suppositions. The first recorded jargons date to the time of the Renaissance, when writers across Europe noted that obscure languages had suddenly come into use. A varied cast of characters -- lawyers, grammarians, and theologians -- denounced these new forms of speech, arguing that they were tools of crime, plotted in tongues that honest people could not understand. Before the emergence of these modern jargons, however, the artificial twisting of languages served a different purpose. In epochs and regions as diverse as archaic Greece and Rome and medieval Provence and Scandinavia, singers and scribes also invented opaque varieties of speech. They did so not to defraud, but to reveal and record a divine thing: the language of the gods, which poets and priests alone were said to master. Dark Tongues moves among these various artificial and hermetic tongues. From criminal jargons to sacred idioms, from Saussure's work on anagrams to Jakobson's theory of subliminal patterns in poetry, from the arcane arts of the Druids and Biblical copyists to the secret procedure that Tristan Tzara, founder of Dada, believed he had uncovered in Villon's songs and ballads, Dark Tongues explores the common crafts of rogues and riddlers, which play sound and sense against each other"--Front inside flap of dust jacket.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Heller-Roazen, D., & Kripke, M. (2013). Dark tongues: the art of rogues and riddlers . Zone Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Heller-Roazen, Daniel and Madeline, Kripke. 2013. Dark Tongues: The Art of Rogues and Riddlers. New York: Zone Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Heller-Roazen, Daniel and Madeline, Kripke. Dark Tongues: The Art of Rogues and Riddlers New York: Zone Books, 2013.

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Heller-Roazen, D. and Kripke, M. (2013). Dark tongues: the art of rogues and riddlers. New York: Zone Books.

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Heller-Roazen, Daniel,, and Madeline Kripke. Dark Tongues: The Art of Rogues and Riddlers Zone Books, 2013.

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