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UNINA9910463320603321 |
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Autore |
Crowley Tony |
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Titolo |
Scouse [[electronic resource] ] : a social and cultural history / / Tony Crowley |
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Liverpool, : Liverpool University Press, 2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-78138-835-0 |
1-78138-908-X |
1-84631-778-9 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (488 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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English language - Dialects - England - Liverpool |
English language - England - Liverpool - Slang |
Electronic books. |
Liverpool (England) Social life and customs |
Liverpool (England) Languages |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Half-title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface. Liverpool: Language, Culture and History; 1 The Sea, Slavery and Strangers: Observations on the Making of Early Modern Liverpool and its Culture; 2 Language in Liverpool: the Received History and an Alternative Thesis; 3 Language and a Sense of Place: the Beginnings of 'Scouse'; 4 Frank Shaw and the Founding of the 'Scouse Industry'; 5 What is 'Scouse'? Historical and Theoretical Issues; 6 Liverpools: Places, Histories, Differences; Appendix. Stories of Words: Naming the Place, Naming the People |
BibliographyNotes; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Nowhere in Britain is more closely associated with a form of language than Liverpool. Yet the history of language in Liverpool has been obscured by misrepresentation and myth-making and narratives of Liverpool's linguistic past have scarcely done justice to the rich, complex and fascinating history which produced it. Scouse: A Social and Cultural History presents a ground-breaking and iconoclastic account which challenges many of the forms of received wisdom about |
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