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Strange Vernaculars : How Eighteenth-Century Slang, Cant, Provincial Languages, and Nautical Jargon Became English /
How vocabularies once associated with outsiders became objects of fascination in eighteenth-century Britain. While eighteenth-century efforts to standardize the English language have long been studied--from Samuel Johnson's Dictionary to grammar and elocution books of the period--less well-know...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2017
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- part I. Wandering languages : from cant to slang
- Reappraising cant : "caterpillars" and slaves
- Daniel Defoe's novel languages
- John Gay's overloaded languages
- The gendered slang of century's end
- part II. The language of place : from "living" provincial languages to the language of the dead
- Provincial languages out of place
- "I do not like London or anything that is in it" : the provincial offensive
- Provincial languages and a vernacular out of time
- part III. Wandering in place : maritime language
- Out tars : making maritime language English.