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Strange Vernaculars

How Eighteenth-Century Slang, Cant, Provincial Languages, and Nautical Jargon Became English
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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

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Janet Sorensen is associate professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of The Grammar of Empire in Eighteenth-Century British Writing.
Release date Australia
June 6th, 2017
Pages
352
Audiences
  • Professional & Vocational
  • Tertiary Education (US: College)
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8 line illus.
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152x235x30
ISBN-13
9780691169026
Product ID
26392620

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