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Strange Vernaculars: How Eighteenth-Century Slang, Cant, Provincial Languages, and Nautical Jargon Became English Janet Sorensen
Strange Vernaculars: How Eighteenth-Century Slang, Cant, Provincial Languages, and Nautical Jargon Became English
Janet Sorensen
How vocabularies once associated with outsiders became objects of fascination in eighteenth-century Britain 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, crimi
352 pages, 8 line illus.
| Mídia | Livros Hardcover Book (Livro com lombada e capa dura) |
| Lançado | 6 de junho de 2017 |
| ISBN13 | 9780691169026 |
| Editoras | Princeton University Press |
| Páginas | 352 |
| Dimensões | 166 × 242 × 28 mm · 639 g |
| Idioma | Inglês |