Cant [ Language & Speech ]
… phrases. Accusations of ‘cant’, i.e. of hypocrisy, flourished in a century that saw the development of new models of sociability relying on fashion and informality as well as of emotional preaching. Concepts > Language & Speech Mots-clés … used in the long eighteenth-century to speak of different types of specialised languages and of different forms of sociability or of anti-sociability linked with them. The first recorded uses of ‘Cant’, from the Latin cantare , ‘to sing‘, date from the …
Controversy | Conversation | Hypocrisy | Rhetoric
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