jargonとは意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Middle English jargoun, jargon, from Old French jargon, a variant of gargon, gargun (“chatter; talk; language”).

名詞

jargon (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 jargons)

1. (uncountable) A technical terminology unique to a particular subject.
2. (countable) A language characteristic of a particular group.
   • 1849, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter I, in The History of England from the Accession of James II, volume I, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323, page 11:

     They [the Normans] abandoned their native speech, and adopted the French tongue, in which Latin was the predominant element. They speedily raised their new language to a dignity and importance which it had never before possessed. They found it a barbarous jargon; they fixed it in writing; and they employed it in legislation, in poetry, and in romance.

   • 2014, Ian Hodder, Archaeological Theory Today:

     In fact all the competing theories have developed their own specialized jargons and have a tendency to be difficult to penetrate.

3. (uncountable) Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.

同意語

• (language characteristic of a group): argot, cant, intalk
• vernacular

派生語

動詞

jargon (三人称単数 現在形 jargons, 現在分詞 jargoning, 過去形および過去分詞形 jargoned)

1. To utter jargon; to emit confused or unintelligible sounds.
   • 1837, Thomas Carlyle, “Fatherland in Danger”, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume III (The Guillotine), London: James Fraser, […], OCLC 1026761782, book III (The Girondins), page 184:

     Prussian Trenck, the poor subterranean Baron, jargons and jangles in an unmelodious manner.

   • 1863 November 23​, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Poet’s Tale. The Birds of Killingworth.”, in Tales of a Wayside Inn, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, OCLC 840321886, page 195:

     [T]he noisy jay, / Jargoning like a foreigner at his food; […]

名詞

jargon (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 jargons)

1. Alternative form of jargoon (“A variety of zircon”)

Further reading

• Jargon on Wikipedia.
• Jargon in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
• "jargon" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 174.