Literary notes about Jargon (AI summary)
Literary works frequently deploy the term "jargon" to underscore the specialized, often insular language characteristic of particular groups or professions, while also critiquing language when it devolves into meaningless or pretentious babble. Authors depict it both as the technical lexicon marking the boundaries of trade, law, or even military circles—as in the case of programming or distinctive cultural dialects ([1], [2])—and as a muddled collection of words that can obscure rather than enlighten, as seen in references to unintelligible, "filthy" or "unmeaning" speech ([3], [4], [5]). At times, it serves to highlight the inherent divide between insiders who master this lexicon and outsiders who find it perplexing, a duality that renders jargon a potent literary device for exploring social and intellectual hierarchies ([6], [7], [8]).
- In X jargon, the program that speaks to the hardware is known as an X server .
— from The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane - He was familiar with the Chinook jargon, and could understand every word spoken in the council.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden - But now he can only whisper, and what he whispers sounds like what it is—mere jumble and jargon.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens - jargon, fustian, twaddle, gibberish &c (no meaning) 517; exaggeration &c 549; moonshine, stuff; mare's nest, quibble, self-delusion.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget - He replied in a jargon I did not comprehend.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë - If you listen to Italians gabbling, you get the effect of the Jewish jargon.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of Short Stories by Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov - “That’s just the jargon of the courts,” Razumihin put in.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - He, as well as Madam de Broglie, was a master of all the modish and fashionable small talk jargon of Paris.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau