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Strange vernaculars [electronic resource] how eighteenth-century slang, cant, provincial languages, and nautical jargon became English
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| 서명/저자사항 | Strange vernaculars : how eighteenth-century slang, cant, provincial languages, and nautical jargon became English/ Janet Sorensen. [electronic resource]. |
| 개인저자 | Sorensen, Janet,author. |
| 발행사항 | Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, [2017]. |
| 형태사항 | 1 online resource (x, 334 pages). |
| 기타형태 저록 | Print version: Sorensen, Janet. Strange vernaculars. Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2017] 0691169020 |
| ISBN | 9781400885169 1400885167 |
| 기타표준부호 | 10.1515/9781400885169doi |
| 서지주기 | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 내용주기 | 1. Reappraising cant: "caterpillars" and slaves -- 2. Daniel Defoe's novel languages -- 3. John Gay's overloaded languages -- 4. The gendered slang of century's end -- 5. Provincial languages out of place -- 6. "I do not like London or anything that is in it": the provincial offensive -- 7. Provincial languages and a vernacular out of time -- 8. Our tars: making maritime language English. |
| 요약 | 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. |
| 일반주제명 | English language --Etymology. Native language. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Etymology LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General English language --Etymology. Native language. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| 언어 | In English. |
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