Strange vernaculars: how eighteenth-century slang, cant, provincial languages, and nautical jargon became english
Auteur :
Sorensen, Janet
Éditeur :
Princeton University Press
ISBN :
9780691210742
Date de publication :
8 sept. 2020
Dimensions :
23,5 x 15,6 cm
Poids :
499 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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