Citation

Maurer DW. Am. J. Sociol. 1939; 44(4): 546-550.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1939, University of Chicago Press)

DOI

10.1086/218067

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Current linguistic field work among prostitutes indicates that they have developed relatively little of the 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.