Scouse : a social and cultural history /

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Scouse: A Social and Cultural History is a ground-breaking and iconoclastic account which challenges many of the forms of received wisdom about the history of language in Liverpool. Exploring evidence from a host of different sources ranging from the mid-eighteenth century to the present, the analys...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Crowley, Tony
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2012.
Subjects:
English language > Dialects > England > Liverpool.
Anglais (Langue) > Dialectes > Angleterre > Liverpool.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > General.
English language > Dialects.
Manners and customs.
Liverpool (England) > Social life and customs.
Liverpool (England) > History.
England > Liverpool.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. sea, slavery and strangers: observations on the making of early modern Liverpool and its culture
  • 2. Language in Liverpool: the received history and an alternative thesis
  • 3. Language and a sense of place: the beginnings of ̀Scouse'
  • 4. Frank Shaw and the founding of the ̀Scouse industry'
  • 5. What is ̀Scouse'? Historical and theoretical issues
  • 6. Liverpools: places, histories, differences.

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