The Resource 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
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- Summary
- "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, criminal argots, provincial dialects, and nautical jargon. Strange Vernaculars delves into how these published works presented the supposed lexicons of the "common people" and traces the ways that these languages, once shunned and associated with outsiders, became objects of fascination in printed glossaries--from The New Canting Dictionary to Francis Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue--and in novels, poems, and songs, including works by Daniel Defoe, John Gay, Samuel Richardson, Robert Burns, and others. Janet Sorensen argues that the recognition and recovery of outsider languages was part of a transition in the eighteenth century from an aristocratic, exclusive body politic to a British national community based on the rhetoric of inclusion and liberty, as well as the revaluing of a common British past. These representations of the vernacular made room for the "common people" within national culture, but only after representing their language as "strange." Such strange and estranged languages, even or especially in their obscurity, came to be claimed as British, making for complex imaginings of the nation and those who composed it..."--Dust jacket
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- x, 334 pages
- Contents
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- "I do not like London or anything that is in it" : The provincial offensive
- Provincial languages and a vernacular out of time
- Part III. Wandering in place : Maritime language.
- Our tars : Making maritime language English
- Introduction
- Part I. Wandering languages : From cant to slang.
- Reappraising cant : "Caterpillars" and slaves
- Daniel Defoe's novel languages
- John Gay's overloaded languages
- The gendered slang of century's end
- Part II. The language of place : From "living" provincial languages to the language of the dead.
- Provincial languages out of place
- Isbn
- 9780691169026
- Label
- Strange vernaculars : how eighteenth-century slang, cant, provincial languages, and nautical jargon became English
- Title
- Strange vernaculars
- Title remainder
- how eighteenth-century slang, cant, provincial languages, and nautical jargon became English
- Statement of responsibility
- Janet Sorensen
- Subject
-
- English language
- English language -- 18th century
- English language -- Etymology
- English language -- Etymology
- 1700-1799
- English language -- Slang
- English language -- Slang
- English language -- Slang | History -- 18th century
- Umgangssprache
- English language -- Etymology | History -- 18th century
- Englisch
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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, criminal argots, provincial dialects, and nautical jargon. Strange Vernaculars delves into how these published works presented the supposed lexicons of the "common people" and traces the ways that these languages, once shunned and associated with outsiders, became objects of fascination in printed glossaries--from The New Canting Dictionary to Francis Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue--and in novels, poems, and songs, including works by Daniel Defoe, John Gay, Samuel Richardson, Robert Burns, and others. Janet Sorensen argues that the recognition and recovery of outsider languages was part of a transition in the eighteenth century from an aristocratic, exclusive body politic to a British national community based on the rhetoric of inclusion and liberty, as well as the revaluing of a common British past. These representations of the vernacular made room for the "common people" within national culture, but only after representing their language as "strange." Such strange and estranged languages, even or especially in their obscurity, came to be claimed as British, making for complex imaginings of the nation and those who composed it..."--Dust jacket
- Cataloging source
- YDX
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Sorensen, Janet
- Dewey number
- 422
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PE1574
- LC item number
- .S67 2017
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- English language
- English language
- English language
- English language
- English language
- English language
- English language
- English language
- Englisch
- Umgangssprache
- Label
- Strange vernaculars : how eighteenth-century slang, cant, provincial languages, and nautical jargon became English, Janet Sorensen
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-320) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- "I do not like London or anything that is in it" : The provincial offensive
- Provincial languages and a vernacular out of time
- Part III. Wandering in place : Maritime language.
- Our tars : Making maritime language English
- Introduction
- Part I. Wandering languages : From cant to slang.
- Reappraising cant : "Caterpillars" and slaves
- Daniel Defoe's novel languages
- John Gay's overloaded languages
- The gendered slang of century's end
- Part II. The language of place : From "living" provincial languages to the language of the dead.
- Provincial languages out of place
- Control code
- 989793422
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- x, 334 pages
- Isbn
- 9780691169026
- Lccn
- 2016955222
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)989793422
- Label
- Strange vernaculars : how eighteenth-century slang, cant, provincial languages, and nautical jargon became English, Janet Sorensen
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-320) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- "I do not like London or anything that is in it" : The provincial offensive
- Provincial languages and a vernacular out of time
- Part III. Wandering in place : Maritime language.
- Our tars : Making maritime language English
- Introduction
- Part I. Wandering languages : From cant to slang.
- Reappraising cant : "Caterpillars" and slaves
- Daniel Defoe's novel languages
- John Gay's overloaded languages
- The gendered slang of century's end
- Part II. The language of place : From "living" provincial languages to the language of the dead.
- Provincial languages out of place
- Control code
- 989793422
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- x, 334 pages
- Isbn
- 9780691169026
- Lccn
- 2016955222
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)989793422
Subject
- English language
- English language -- 18th century
- English language -- Etymology
- English language -- Etymology
- 1700-1799
- English language -- Slang
- English language -- Slang
- English language -- Slang | History -- 18th century
- Umgangssprache
- English language -- Etymology | History -- 18th century
- Englisch
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