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



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Autore: Crowley Tony Visualizza persona
Titolo: Scouse [[electronic resource] ] : a social and cultural history / / Tony Crowley Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Liverpool, : Liverpool University Press, 2012
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (488 p.)
Disciplina: 942.753
Soggetto topico: English language - Dialects - England - Liverpool
English language - England - Liverpool - Slang
Soggetto geografico: Liverpool (England) Social life and customs
Liverpool (England) Languages
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
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
Titolo autorizzato: Scouse  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-78138-835-0
1-78138-908-X
1-84631-778-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910463320603321
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