David W Maurer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3993942 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David W Maurer |
| GIVEN NAMES | David W |
| FAMILY NAME | Maurer |
| SIGNATURE | MAURER D W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Louisville Hospital |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1930 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Facilitating Volunteer Community Engagement Service
BACKGROUND: Community engagement is an emerging form of pedagogy in nursing education that requires students and faculty to go beyond the traditional classroom setting to generate meaningful community-based experiences. Service-learning and volunteering are strategies nurse educators use for community service work. There is a gap in specific guidance for the faculty role in facilitating community-engaged volunteer service. METHOD: A case study de…
The Speech of American Subcultures
Jody's Chinese Relations
Criminal Monickers
New Words: Where Do They Come from and Where Do They Go
Kentucky Moonshine: An Appreciation
Whiz Mob: A Correlation of the Technical Argot of Pickpockets with Their Behavior Pattern
Whiz Mob is David W. Maurer's classic study of the world of pickpockets. Similar to his best-known work, The Big Con , in Whiz Mob Maurer explains the colorful expressions and vivid words used by pickpockets and uses them to provide a window into the life and experiences of the professional criminal. Although he is quick to point out that he never had any actual experience on the racket, Maurer spent many years interviewing pickpockets and learni…
Peyote Is Not a Drug of Addiction
A Word-Finder List for Whiz Mob
Research Article| April 01 1959 A Word-Finder List for Whiz Mob David W. Maurer David W. Maurer University of Louisville Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Publication of the American Dialect Society (1959) 31 (1): 14–30. https://doi.org/10.1215/-31-1-14 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation David W. Maurer; A Word-Finder List for Whiz Mob. Publication of the American Dialect Society 1 Ap…
The Argot of the Racetrack
A Dictionary of the Underworld
The Argot of the Dice Gambler
The Argot of the Moonshiner
A Postscript to 'Hubba-Hubba
The Argot of the Three-Shell Game
THERE ARE two distinct phases of argot indigenous to American circuses. The one, used by performers and employees, is really a sort of occupational jargon and has been frequently sampled by students of language. The other, comprising elements of several obscure criminal argots, is almost exclusively the property of the circus-grifters who keep themselves aloof from the other personnel, share their take with the management, and constitute a small,…
The Argot of the Faro Bank
T HERE IS no such thing as an honest professional gambler; he must be able to improve perceptibly upon the law of averages if he wishes to live. And most professionals live very well. They constitute a large block within the grift2 and are accepted by the fraternity along with thieves, pickpockets, confidence men, etc. The status of the big-timers is rather high; some are straight gamblers, some are part-time confidence men, and some are full-tim…
Gem of the Prairie
The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man and the Confidence Game
The Argot of Confidence Men
IN THE American underworld, most professional crime falls into one of two main divisions: the heavy-rackets and the grift. The grift, including a great number of speciSc rackets, depends upon quickness of wit and lightness of touch, while the heavy-rackets involve violence or the threat of violence. The 'gentle grifter' was not misnamed. Within the gaift the following groups of professionals operate: conEdence men including big-con and short-con …
Prostitutes and Criminal Argots
Current linguistic field work among prostitutes indicates that they have developed relatively little of te professional argot so characteristic of other criminal professions. This situation is explained in terms of the underworld setup in which prostitutes work and in the light of certain social, economic, and psychological factors which normally enter into argot-formation
The Argot of the Underworld Narcotic Addict: Part II
since the publication of the 1936 article; while many of them are apparently of very recent coinage, it is probable that most of them were simply not recorded in the previous study; a careful check shows no evidence that any of the previously printed terms have become obsolete.3 Only by checking these lists at intervals over the next ten or fifteen years will it be possible to determine how rapidly the argot changes and what factors most strongly…
The Argot of the Underworld Narcotic Addict
The Lingo of the Good-People
gun were unthought of as tools of crime; when crooks talked in terms of dollars instead of thousands; when crime, in short, was in the horse-andbuggy stage and had not yet become one of the major industries of this great republic. Even as the countless generations of criminals who preceded them, the good-people had their argot. Around 19oo when the present-day elderly goodpeople were criminal Dapper Dans, their lingo was the last word in linguist…
Carnival Cant: A Glossary of Circus and Carnival Slang
ROMANCE is fading from the road show. Seventy-five years ago a circus was manned, propelled, defended by flesh and blood. The performers lashed straining horses over thirty miles or more of treacherous roads between stands; the same performers and the same horses, aided perhaps by a few extra laborers, unloaded the wagons, set up the show, gave two or three performances, licked the inevitable native rowdies, and proceeded to the next stand withou…
The Argot of the Underworld
UR modern American underworld differs little in spirit from that of Greene and Dekker, of Cervantes and Aleman. It is true that the technique of rogue and officer have changed; Dekker's glossary of canting language-complete though it was, for Dekker spent enough of his life in jail to be thoroughly conversant with his material-has given way to a succession of argots in the latest of which, so far as I can determine, not a single one of his words …
A Dictionary of the Underworld
Prostitutes and Criminal Argots
Current linguistic field work among prostitutes indicates that they have developed relatively little of te professional argot so characteristic of other criminal professions. This situation is explained in terms of the underworld setup in which prostitutes work and in the light of certain social, economic, and psychological factors which normally enter into argot-formation
Criminal Monickers
Carnival Cant: A Glossary of Circus and Carnival Slang
ROMANCE is fading from the road show. Seventy-five years ago a circus was manned, propelled, defended by flesh and blood. The performers lashed straining horses over thirty miles or more of treacherous roads between stands; the same performers and the same horses, aided perhaps by a few extra laborers, unloaded the wagons, set up the show, gave two or three performances, licked the inevitable native rowdies, and proceeded to the next stand withou…
The Argot of the Underworld
UR modern American underworld differs little in spirit from that of Greene and Dekker, of Cervantes and Aleman. It is true that the technique of rogue and officer have changed; Dekker's glossary of canting language-complete though it was, for Dekker spent enough of his life in jail to be thoroughly conversant with his material-has given way to a succession of argots in the latest of which, so far as I can determine, not a single one of his words …
New Words: Where Do They Come from and Where Do They Go
Peyote Is Not a Drug of Addiction
The Argot of the Dice Gambler
The Argot of the Moonshiner
The Argot of the Underworld Narcotic Addict: Part II
since the publication of the 1936 article; while many of them are apparently of very recent coinage, it is probable that most of them were simply not recorded in the previous study; a careful check shows no evidence that any of the previously printed terms have become obsolete.3 Only by checking these lists at intervals over the next ten or fifteen years will it be possible to determine how rapidly the argot changes and what factors most strongly…
Schoonerisms: Some Speech-Peculiarities of the North-Atlantic Fishermen
Schoonerisms: Some Speech-Peculiarities of the North-Atlantic Fishermen
Carnival Cant: A Glossary of Circus and Carnival Slang
ROMANCE is fading from the road show. Seventy-five years ago a circus was manned, propelled, defended by flesh and blood. The performers lashed straining horses over thirty miles or more of treacherous roads between stands; the same performers and the same horses, aided perhaps by a few extra laborers, unloaded the wagons, set up the show, gave two or three performances, licked the inevitable native rowdies, and proceeded to the next stand withou…
The Argot of the Underworld
UR modern American underworld differs little in spirit from that of Greene and Dekker, of Cervantes and Aleman. It is true that the technique of rogue and officer have changed; Dekker's glossary of canting language-complete though it was, for Dekker spent enough of his life in jail to be thoroughly conversant with his material-has given way to a succession of argots in the latest of which, so far as I can determine, not a single one of his words …
The Lingo of the Good-People
gun were unthought of as tools of crime; when crooks talked in terms of dollars instead of thousands; when crime, in short, was in the horse-andbuggy stage and had not yet become one of the major industries of this great republic. Even as the countless generations of criminals who preceded them, the good-people had their argot. Around 19oo when the present-day elderly goodpeople were criminal Dapper Dans, their lingo was the last word in linguist…
The Argot of the Underworld Narcotic Addict
The Argot of the Underworld Narcotic Addict: Part II
since the publication of the 1936 article; while many of them are apparently of very recent coinage, it is probable that most of them were simply not recorded in the previous study; a careful check shows no evidence that any of the previously printed terms have become obsolete.3 Only by checking these lists at intervals over the next ten or fifteen years will it be possible to determine how rapidly the argot changes and what factors most strongly…
Prostitutes and Criminal Argots
Current linguistic field work among prostitutes indicates that they have developed relatively little of te professional argot so characteristic of other criminal professions. This situation is explained in terms of the underworld setup in which prostitutes work and in the light of certain social, economic, and psychological factors which normally enter into argot-formation
The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man and the Confidence Game
The Argot of Confidence Men
IN THE American underworld, most professional crime falls into one of two main divisions: the heavy-rackets and the grift. The grift, including a great number of speciSc rackets, depends upon quickness of wit and lightness of touch, while the heavy-rackets involve violence or the threat of violence. The 'gentle grifter' was not misnamed. Within the gaift the following groups of professionals operate: conEdence men including big-con and short-con …
Gem of the Prairie
The Argot of the Faro Bank
T HERE IS no such thing as an honest professional gambler; he must be able to improve perceptibly upon the law of averages if he wishes to live. And most professionals live very well. They constitute a large block within the grift2 and are accepted by the fraternity along with thieves, pickpockets, confidence men, etc. The status of the big-timers is rather high; some are straight gamblers, some are part-time confidence men, and some are full-tim…
A Postscript to 'Hubba-Hubba
The Argot of the Three-Shell Game
THERE ARE two distinct phases of argot indigenous to American circuses. The one, used by performers and employees, is really a sort of occupational jargon and has been frequently sampled by students of language. The other, comprising elements of several obscure criminal argots, is almost exclusively the property of the circus-grifters who keep themselves aloof from the other personnel, share their take with the management, and constitute a small,…
The Argot of the Moonshiner
The Argot of the Dice Gambler
The Argot of the Racetrack
A Dictionary of the Underworld
A Word-Finder List for Whiz Mob
Research Article| April 01 1959 A Word-Finder List for Whiz Mob David W. Maurer David W. Maurer University of Louisville Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Publication of the American Dialect Society (1959) 31 (1): 14–30. https://doi.org/10.1215/-31-1-14 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation David W. Maurer; A Word-Finder List for Whiz Mob. Publication of the American Dialect Society 1 Ap…
Peyote Is Not a Drug of Addiction
Whiz Mob: A Correlation of the Technical Argot of Pickpockets with Their Behavior Pattern
Whiz Mob is David W. Maurer's classic study of the world of pickpockets. Similar to his best-known work, The Big Con , in Whiz Mob Maurer explains the colorful expressions and vivid words used by pickpockets and uses them to provide a window into the life and experiences of the professional criminal. Although he is quick to point out that he never had any actual experience on the racket, Maurer spent many years interviewing pickpockets and learni…
Kentucky Moonshine: An Appreciation
New Words: Where Do They Come from and Where Do They Go
The Speech of American Subcultures
Jody's Chinese Relations
Criminal Monickers
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