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  • Published: 14 October 2025
  • ISBN: 9780241736609
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $45.00
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Schott’s Significa

An Unexpectedly Essential Guide to Language




Schott is back – and better than ever! From the mind that created the million-copy selling Schott’s Original Miscellany comes Schott's Significa: an indispensable field guide to the hidden lore and language of our modern age.

A language taxonomy for our curious times. Every day we are surrounded by complex, private systems of knowledge and language: some we use ourselves, others we observe or overhear. Every trade, gang, clique, and profession develops a private lexicon of words, signs, and signals to bind its members closer while keeping strangers out. From dog-walkers to spies, sommeliers to gym-goers, typography to graffiti, Schott's Significa decodes the secret languages that surround us. Packed with analysis exploring these taxonomies in all their fascinating detail, photographs and illustrations, this book is a dynamic evolution of the Miscellany concept for our curious times and the key to unlocking the hidden worlds around us.

  • Published: 14 October 2025
  • ISBN: 9780241736609
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $45.00
Categories:

About the author

Ben Schott

Ben Schott is the author of Schott's Original Miscellany and its four sequels, which have been translated into twenty-one languages; six volumes of the yearbook Schott's Almanac; and Schottenfreude. He divides his time between London and New York.

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