A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries: V. 2 1785-1858, Coleman, Julie
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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: Coleman, Julie Название: A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries Volume 1: 1567-1784 ISBN: 0199254710 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199254712 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 26532.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The first of three volumes comprising a complete history of the recording of English cant and slang - the jargon of sport, trade, and crime - which give unparalleled insights into the history of slang and the people who used it. Provides information on words and their meanings such as `ziff` (a young thief), and `arsworm` (a diminutive fellow).
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Описание: A guide to American slang, it offers definitions of more than 12,000 slang and informal expressions from various sources, ranging from golden oldies such as golden oldie, to coinages like shizzle (gangsta), jonx (Wall Street), and ping (the Internet).
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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.
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.
Автор: Oxford Dictionaries Название: Concise Oxford English Dictionary ISBN: 0199601097 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199601097 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 3366.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
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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.
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