Strange Vernaculars : : How Eighteenth-Century Slang, Cant, Provincial Languages, and Nautical Jargon Became English /

Strange Vernaculars : : How Eighteenth-Century Slang, Cant, Provincial Languages, and Nautical Jargon Became English / / Janet Sorensen.

How vocabularies once associated with outsiders became objects of fascination in eighteenth-century BritainWhile 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 ar...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter PUP eBook-Package Pilot Project 2017
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Sorensen, Janet,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017]
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • PART I. WANDERING LANGUAGES
  • Chapter 1. Reappraising Cant
  • Chapter 2. Daniel Defoe's Novel Languages
  • Chapter 3. John Gay's Overloaded Languages
  • Chapter 4. The Gendered Slang of Century's End
  • PART II. THE LANGUAGE OF PLACE
  • Chapter 5. Provincial Languages out of Place
  • Chapter 6. "I Do Not Like London or Anything That Is in It"
  • Chapter 7. Provincial Languages and a Vernacular out of Time
  • PART III. WANDERING IN PLACE
  • Chapter 8. Our Tars
  • Notes
  • Index

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