Описание: This is the first volume in a complete history of the documentation of English cant and slang from 1567 to the present. It gives unparalleled insights into the early history of slang, the people who used it, and how and why it was recorded. It also provides unusual and unexpected insights into the underworlds of early modern England.
Описание: Volume III of this acclaimed history casts light on life across the globe - from Canadian and Australian settlers, London cockneys, and American schoolboys to New York ganglang, the narcotics trade, and the entertainment business. A book for everyone interested in language, lexicography, class, poverty, sexuality, and the criminal underworld.
Автор: Coleman, Julie Название: A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries: V. 2 1785-1858 ISBN: 0199254702 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199254705 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 11878.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The second volume (volume 1, 1567-1785, published in January 2004) of Julie Coleman`s fascinating and entertaining history of the uses and the recording of slang and criminal cant takes the story from 1785 to 1858 and explores its first manifestations in the USA and Australia.
Автор: Mugglestone, Lynda Название: Dictionaries: A Very Short Introduction ISBN: 0199573794 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199573790 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 1582.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Dictionaries are far more than works which list the words and meanings of a language. In this Very Short Introduction Lynda Mugglestone takes a look at how dictionaries are made, considering how they reflect the dominant social and cultural assumptions of the time in which they were written.
Автор: Spears Richard A Название: American Slang Dictionary ISBN: 0071461086 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780071461085 Издательство: McGraw-Hill Рейтинг: Цена: 4288.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Helps to learn the lingo of American English. This dictionary offers you the definitions of more than 12,000 slang and informal expressions from various sources, ranging from golden oldie to ping. Each entry is followed by examples illustrating how an expression is used in everyday conversation.
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-known are the era's popular collections of odd slang, criminal argots, provincial dialects, and nautical jargon. Strange Vernaculars delves into how these published works presented the supposed lexicons of the "common people" and traces the ways that these languages, once shunned and associated with outsiders, became objects of fascination in printed glossaries--from The New Canting Dictionary to Francis Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue--and in novels, poems, and songs, including works by Daniel Defoe, John Gay, Samuel Richardson, Robert Burns, and others.
Janet Sorensen argues that the recognition and recovery of outsider languages was part of a transition in the eighteenth century from an aristocratic, exclusive body politic to a British national community based on the rhetoric of inclusion and liberty, as well as the revaluing of a common British past. These representations of the vernacular made room for the "common people" within national culture, but only after representing their language as "strange." Such strange and estranged languages, even or especially in their obscurity, came to be claimed as British, making for complex imaginings of the nation and those who composed it. Odd cant languages, witty slang phrases, provincial terms newly valued for their connection to British history, or nautical jargon repurposed for sentimental connections all toggle, in eighteenth-century jest books, novels, and poems, between the alluringly alien and familiarly British.
Shedding new light on the history of the English language, Strange Vernaculars explores how eighteenth-century British literature transformed the patois attributed to those on the margins into living symbols of the nation.
Examples of slang from Strange Vernaculars
bum-boat woman: one who sells bread, cheese, greens, and liquor to sailors from a small boat alongside a ship
collar day: execution day
crewnting: groaning, like a grunting horse
gentleman's companion: lice
gingerbread-work: gilded carvings of a ship's bow and stern
luggs: ears
mort: a large amount
thraw: to argue hotly and loudly
Автор: Spears, Richard A. Название: Mcgraw-hill`s essential american slang ISBN: 0071497854 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780071497855 Издательство: McGraw-Hill Рейтинг: Цена: 2229.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Covering American English, this reference defines and explains hundreds of contemporary American slang expressions and illustrates their use in real-life situations. It helps you learn to understand this integral part of living English as used by Americans in all walks of life.
Автор: Coleman, Julie Название: The Life of Slang ISBN: 0199571996 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199571994 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 2374.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book traces the development of English slang from the earliest records to the latest tweet and explores why and how slang is used. Based on inside information from real live slang users as well as the best scholarly sources, this book is guaranteed to teach you some new words that you shouldn't use in polite company.
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