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Author : William Matthews
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Cockney, Past and Present written by William Matthews and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Matthew
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ISBN 13 : 9781844531639
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (316 download)
Download or read book Cockney Past and Present: a Short History of the Dialect of London written by Matthew and published by . This book was released on 2005-04-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William MATTHEWS (M.A., Ph. D.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (563 download)
Download or read book Cockney Past and Present. A Short History of the Dialect of London written by William MATTHEWS (M.A., Ph. D.) and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : W. Matthews
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ISBN 13 : 9780879688813
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (888 download)
Download or read book Cockney, Past and Present written by W. Matthews and published by . This book was released on 1972-01-01 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Matthews
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317425596
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)
Download or read book Cockney Past and Present written by William Matthews and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Cockney can be considered to be one of the most important non-standard forms of English, there had been little to no scholarly attention on the dialect prior to William Matthews’s 1938 volume Cockney Past and Present. Matthews traced the course of the speech of London from the sixteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century by gathering information from many sources including plays, novels, music-hall songs, the comments of critics and the speech and recollections of living Cockneys. This book will be of interest to students of language and linguistics.
Author : Jennifer J. Purcell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501346539
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Mother of the BBC written by Jennifer J. Purcell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-05-14 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mabel Constanduros was one of the first British radio comediennes and a beloved star of the early BBC, best known as the creator and performer of the comic Cockney family, the Bugginses. In this, the first significant biography of Constanduros, Jennifer J Purcell explores Constanduros's career and influence on the shaping of popular British entertainment alongside the history of the nascent BBC. Mother of the BBC provides new insights into programming decisions and content on the early BBC, deepening our understanding of the history and evolution of situation comedy and soap opera. Further, Constanduros's biography considers class in the representation of the British people on BBC radio, the gendered experience and performance of radio celebrity, and the intersections between BBC entertainment and other forms of popular media prior to the advent of television. Constanduros's emphasis on the everyday and the family had far-reaching impacts on the shape of sitcom and soap opera in Britain, two popular lenses through which the nation sees itself at home. Her role in developing entertainment on the BBC and the ways in which she cultivated her career make her the Mother of the BBC, but in constructing a popular image of family life she might also be considered the Mother of the Nation.
Author : P. Jackson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135794936
Total Pages : 772 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)
Download or read book British Sources of Information written by P. Jackson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive and versatile reference source will be a most important tool for anyone wishing to seek out information on virtually any aspect of British affairs, life and culture. The resources of a detailed bibliography, directory and journals listing are combined in this single volume, forming a unique guide to a multitude of diverse topics - British politics, government, society, literature, thought, arts, economics, history and geography. Academic subjects as taught in British colleges and universities are covered, with extensive reading lists of books and journals and sources of information for each discipline, making this an invaluable manual.
Author : Ivor Timmis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429816553
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)
Download or read book The Discourse of Desperation written by Ivor Timmis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-25 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses how the poor and desperate in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries mobilised their linguistic resources in pursuit of vital pragmatic goals, drawing on three corpora of letters written by the poor. The main question addressed by the book is, ‘How were the poor, often armed only with low levels of education and literacy, able to meet the challenge of writing letters vital to their interests, even to their survival?’ Timmis argues that the answer lies in the highly strategic approach adopted by the writers, particularly evident in the way formulaic language is used in the pauper and prisoner letters. Formulaic language supports the writers in producing intelligible letters in what they consider an appropriate tone but also allows them to exploit popular cultural motifs of the time. Data is drawn from three sources: pauper letters by the poor applying for parish relief, from around 1795 to 1834; prisoner letters by women awaiting deportation to Australia for defrauding the Bank of England in the early nineteenth century; and anonymous letters by the poor demanding money with menaces. Comparison with the Mayhew Corpus of interviews with the London poor in the 1850s reinforces the idea that part of the writers’ approach was to orient away from the vernacular towards a style they perceived to be more elevated. Showing how resourceful people can be in communicating their needs in crises and in turn surfacing new insights into literacy and demotic language awareness, this book will be of interest to students and scholars in corpus linguistics and social history.
Author : George Watson
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1296 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature written by George Watson and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1974 with total page 1296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Milroy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317896955
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book Real English written by James Milroy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While it is accepted that the pronunciation of English shows wide regional differences, there is a marked tendency to under-estimate the extent of the variation in grammar that exists within the British Isles today. In addressing this problem, Real English brings together the work of a number of experts on the subject to provide a pioneer volume in the field of the grammar of spoken English.
Author : C. Gallant
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230502490
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Keats and Romantic Celticism written by C. Gallant and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-06-01 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Celtic Revival began more than a century before Yeats and the Irish Literary Renaissance. Keats and Romantic Celtism is the first book to consider the pervasive influence of period Celticism upon Keats's work, from the Druidism that underlies his unfinished epics to the Celtic-derived folklore that his poetry draws upon. Christine Gallant shows that more than two hundred and fifty traditional folklore motifs of the faerie fill his major poems, as well as minor epistolary ones that have been critically neglected.
Author : William Matthews
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Cookney Past and Present written by William Matthews and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Raymond Hickey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781139442381
Total Pages : 742 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (423 download)
Download or read book Legacies of Colonial English written by Raymond Hickey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-02-24 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a result of colonization, many varieties of English now exist around the world. Originally published in 2005, Legacies of Colonial English brings together a team of internationally renowned scholars to discuss the role of British dialects in both the genesis and subsequent history of postcolonial Englishes. Considering the input of Scottish, English and Irish dialects, they closely examine a wide range of Englishes - including those in North and South America, South Africa, Asia, Australia and New Zealand - and explain why many of them still reflect non-standard British usage from the distant past. Complete with a checklist of dialect features, a detailed glossary and set of general references on the topic of postcolonial Englishes, this book will be an invaluable source to scholars and students of English language and linguistics, particularly those interested in sociolinguistics, historical linguistics and dialectology.
Author : Alexander Bergs
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110523043
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Varieties of English written by Alexander Bergs and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-10-23 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is one of the first detailed expositions of the history of different varieties of English. It explores language variation and varieties of English from an historical perspective, covering theoretical topics such as diffusion and supraregionalization as well as concrete descriptions of the internal and external historical developments of more than a dozen varieties of English including American English, African American Vernacular English, Received Pronunciation, Estuary English, and English in Canada, Africa, India, Wales, among many others.
Author : Megan Perigoe Stitt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198184423
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (844 download)
Download or read book Metaphors of Change in the Language of Nineteenth-century Fiction written by Megan Perigoe Stitt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines three major nineteenth-century writers in the context of the models of progress emerging from contemporary studies in geology and language. The deployment of varieties of speech in their novels throws light on how different genres--fictional and scientific--affected the century's use of metaphor and its often contradictory theories of progress.
Author : Lynda Mugglestone
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191554723
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Talking Proper written by Lynda Mugglestone and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2003-02-20 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Talking Proper is a history of the rise and fall of the English accent as a badge of cultural, social, and class identity. Lynda Mugglestone traces the origins of the phenomenon in late eighteenth-century London, follows its history through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and charts its downfall during the era of New Labour. This is a witty, readable account of a fascinating subject, liberally spiced with quotations from English speech and writing over the past 250 years.
Author : Vivi Lachs
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814343562
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)
Download or read book Whitechapel Noise written by Vivi Lachs and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-14 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New perspectives on Anglo-Jewish history via the poetry and song of Yiddish-speaking immigrants in London from 1884 to 1914. Archive material from the London Yiddish press, songbooks, and satirical writing offers a window into an untold cultural life of the Yiddish East End. Whitechapel Noise: Jewish Immigrant Life in Yiddish Song and Verse, London 1884–1914 by Vivi Lachs positions London’s Yiddish popular culture in historical perspective within Anglo-Jewish history, English socialist aesthetics, and music-hall culture, and shows its relationship to the transnational Yiddish-speaking world. Layers of cultural references in the Yiddish texts are closely analyzed and quoted to draw out the complex yet intimate histories they contain, offering new perspectives on Anglo-Jewish historiography in three main areas: politics, sex, and religion. The acculturation of Jewish immigrants to English life is an important part of the development of their social culture, as well as to the history of London. In part one of the book, Lachs presents an overview of daily immigrant life in London, its relationship to the Anglo-Jewish establishment, and the development of a popular Yiddish theatre and press, establishing a context from which these popular texts came. The author then analyzes the poems and songs, revealing the hidden social histories of the people writing and performing them. For example, how Morris Winchevsky’s London poetry shows various attempts to engage the Jewish immigrant worker in specific London activism and political debate. Lachs explores how themes of marriage, relationships, and sexual exploitation appear regularly in music-hall songs, alluding to the changing nature of sexual roles in the immigrant London community influenced by the cultural mores of their new location. On the theme of religion, Lachs examines how ideas from Jewish texts and practice were used and manipulated by the socialist poets to advance ideas about class, equality, and revolution; and satirical writings offer glimpses into how the practice of religion and growing secularization was changing immigrants’ daily lives in the encounter with modernity. The detailed and nuanced analysis found in Whitechapel Noiseoffers a new reading of Anglo-Jewish, London, and immigrant history. It is a must-read for Jewish and Anglo-Jewish historians and those interested in Yiddish, London, and migration studies.
