Strange Vernaculars: How Eighteenth-Century Slang, Cant, Provincial Languages, and Nautical Jargon Became English, Sorensen Janet
Автор: Sumner, Rachael Название: Writing from the margins of europe ISBN: 3631650507 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783631650509 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 11807.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The application of postcolonial theories to Irish literature remains a contentious issue. Unlike other colonised nations, Ireland shared a long history of political, economic and artistic ties with its empire-building neighbour, Britain. Yet the Irish response to the project of British imperialism bears comparison with postcolonial models of the relationship between colonisers and the colonised. Writing from the Margins of Europe assesses the potential for postcolonial analysis of works by W. B. Yeats, J. M. Synge and James Joyce. In this exploration of postcolonial parallels between these writers, the author focuses on four core issues: historiography, nationalism, language and displacement.
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: 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).
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.
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: Shay, Cary A. Название: Of mermaids and others ISBN: 3034308108 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783034308106 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 14657.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This volume is a critical introduction to the poetry of Irish writer Nuala N? Dhomhnaill. Writing poetry exclusively in Irish but allowing and overseeing translations of her work into several languages, primarily English, N? Dhomhnaill is the first Irish-language poet to gain an international following. She is also a pioneer in fostering a renewed relationship between the two languages of Ireland’s literary traditions. N? Dhomhnaill is unflinching in her interventions into problematic social, linguistic and even theoretical arenas, and is well known for her brutal parodies, ribald sexual scenarios and persistent debunking and revising of religious, political and mythological imagery. Her primary thematic concerns demonstrate her dedication to critiquing and ultimately changing dominant discourses so that they account for the presence and contributions of women writers. This volume explores the fraught issues of translating and contextualizing N? Dhomhnaill’s ?uvre, her use and revisions of Irish myth, folklore and political and religious iconography, her re-imagining of the mother in culture and religious ideology, and the devices of death, silence and psychoanalytic discourse in her mermaid cycle and other poems. The book hails N? Dhomhnaill, who has not hitherto received a great deal of critical attention in English, as a major figure in world literature.
Описание: Dans quelle mesure une etude comparee des pratiques et representations des langues chez des acteurs scolaires (enseignants, eleves, parents d’eleves et representants institutionnels) permet-elle d’identifier les facteurs relatifs a l’introduction ou non a l’ecole de la langue dite nationale – le creole a base lexicale francaise ? A quel point est-il pertinent de l’introduire dans le systeme educatif anglophone de petits Etats-nations en developpement comme la Dominique et Sainte-Lucie – caracterises par une dynamique sociale et culturelle ou conflit et contact de langues (anglais, creoles, chinois, francais, espagnol, hindi, garifuna et/ou kokoy) rythment la vie quotidienne des locuteurs ? Comment l’ecole peut-elle favoriser un meilleur apprentissage du vivre ensemble ? Pour mener a bien cette recherche-action, l’etude s’inscrit dans une approche experimentale de type hypothetico-deductive. Elle propose des pistes de reflexion pour ameliorer le partenariat langue officielle / langue nationale dans un contexte scolaire caracterise par des pratiques bi-plurilingues.
Название: Cognitive explorations into metaphor and metonymy ISBN: 3631647700 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783631647707 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 12829.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This volume presents selected contributions to an annual symposium on metaphor and metonymy held at the English Department of Heidelberg University. It brings together papers by lecturers, PhD students and graduates from three universities – Heidelberg University, E?tv?s Lor?nd University in Budapest, and the University of East Anglia in Norwich. The contributions illustrate the plurality of perspectives and methods in current cognitive-linguistic research on metaphor and metonymy and exemplify some of the ways in which they can be combined. The papers also attest to the wide range of domains and topics to which metaphor- and metonymy-based research can be applied, including emotion terms, political and scientific discourse, morphology, cross-cultural variation and internet communication.
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