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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463320603321

Autore

Crowley Tony

Titolo

Scouse [[electronic resource] ] : a social and cultural history / / Tony Crowley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Liverpool, : Liverpool University Press, 2012

ISBN

1-78138-835-0

1-78138-908-X

1-84631-778-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (488 p.)

Disciplina

942.753

Soggetti

English language - Dialects - England - Liverpool

English language - England - Liverpool - Slang

Electronic books.

Liverpool (England) Social life and customs

Liverpool (England) Languages

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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



language in Liverpool and presents an alternative version of the currently accepted history. Ranging from the mid eighteenth centur