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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 Paperback Book (Livro de capa flexível e brochura) |
| Lançado | 8 de setembro de 2020 |
| ISBN13 | 9780691210742 |
| Editoras | Princeton University Press |
| Páginas | 352 |
| Dimensões | 233 × 157 × 24 mm · 552 g |
| Idioma | Inglês |