1.

Record Nr.

UNISA990006135970203316

Autore

ARNOLDUS : , Leodiensis

Titolo

Arnoldi Leodiensis Alphabetum narrationum / e schedis Coletae Ribaucourt ; edidit Elisa Brilli ; auxilium praestantibus Jacques Berlioz et Marie Anne Polo De Beaulieu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Turnhout : Brepols, 2015

Titolo uniforme

Alphabetum narrationum

ISBN

978-2-503-53200-4

Descrizione fisica

CVIII, 752 p., 1 facsimile ; 25 cm

Collana

Corpus Christianorum , Continuatio Mediaevalis ; 160

Exempla Medii aevi ; 6

Disciplina

873.04

Collocazione

V.4. Coll. 2/ 216

Lingua di pubblicazione

Latino

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910460265403321

Titolo

Ain'thology : the history and life of a taboo word / / edited by Patricia Donaher and Seth Katz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-4438-7872-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (376 p.)

Disciplina

417.2

Soggetti

Taboo, Linguistic

English language - Semantics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; I; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; II; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; III; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; IV; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

The word ain't is used by speakers of all dialects and sociolects of English. Nonetheless, language critics view ain't as marking speakers as ""lazy"" or ""stupid""; and the educated assume ain't is on its deathbed, used only in clichés. Everyone has an opinion about ain't. Even the grammar-checker in Microsoft Word flags every ain't with a red underscore. But why? Over the past 100 years, only a few articles and sections of books have reviewed the history of ain't or discussed it in dialect cont...