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The Language of London

Author : Daniel Smith
Publisher : Michael O'Mara Books
ISBN 13 : 1782433821
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (824 download)

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Download or read book The Language of London written by Daniel Smith and published by Michael O'Mara Books. This book was released on 2014-12-08 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive guide to the vibrant and inventive language of the East End, featuring history, trivia and anecdotes. Cockney rhyming slang originated as a secret code among the thieves of London's East End. Adopted by costermongers and market traders, it fast became a vibrant patois that defined a community, confused the police and evolved to include ever more colourful rhyming phrases. Constantly updated and added to ever since, and fostered by Londoners citywide, it has long enlivened the streets of one of the world's most quirky and fascinating capitals. Cockney Rhyming Slang explores the origins and meanings of both commonly used and lesser-known phrases, taking in traditional slang as well as modern additions. Combining history, trivia, quotes and anecdotes, it is the definitive guide to cockney rhyming slang for locals and language lovers alike.

London Jamaican

Author : Mark Sebba
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131789717X
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book London Jamaican written by Mark Sebba and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London Jamaican provides the reader with a new perspective on African descent in London. Based on research carried out in the early 1980s, the author examines the linguistic background of the community, with special emphasis on young people of the first and second British-born generations.

The Cockney Rhyming Slang Dictionary

Author : Geoff Tibballs
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473566878
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book The Cockney Rhyming Slang Dictionary written by Geoff Tibballs and published by Random House. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic pocket guide to the language of London. This wonderful little guide to cockney rhyming slang contains over 1,700 old and new rhymes translated from Cockney to English and English to Cockney, including: Custard and jelly - telly Hot cross bun - nun Lemon tart - smart Rock ’n’ roll - dole Sticky toffee - coffee ...and many more. Master the art of the Cockney rhyme and discover the Cockney origins of common British phrases.

Twentieth-Century English

Author : Christian Mair
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139459627
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Twentieth-Century English written by Christian Mair and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-10-26 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Standard English has evolved and developed in many ways over the past hundred years. From pronunciation to vocabulary to grammar, this concise survey clearly documents the recent history of Standard English. Drawing on large amounts of authentic corpus data, it shows how we can track ongoing changes to the language, and demonstrates each of the major developments that have taken place. As well as taking insights from a vast body of literature, Christian Mair presents the results of his own cutting-edge research, revealing some important changes which have not been previously documented. He concludes by exploring how social and cultural factors, such as the American influence on British English, have affected Standard English in recent times. Authoritative, informative and engaging, this book will be essential reading for anyone interested in language change in progress, particularly those working on English, and will be welcomed by students, researchers and language teachers alike.

The Language of Landscape

Author : Anne Whiston Spirn
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300082944
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (829 download)

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Download or read book The Language of Landscape written by Anne Whiston Spirn and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eloquent and powerful book combines poetry and pragmatism to teach the language of landscape. Anne Whiston Spirn, author of the award-winning The Granite Garden: Urban Nature and Human Design, argues that the language of landscape exists with its own syntax, grammar, and metaphors, and that we imperil ourselves by failing to learn to read and speak this language. To understand the meanings of landscape, our habitat, is to see the world differently and to enable ourselves to avoid profound aesthetic and environmental mistakes. Offering examples that range across thousands of years and five continents, Spirn examines urban, rural, and natural landscapes. She discusses the thought of renowned landscape authors--Thomas Jefferson, Frank Lloyd Wright, Frederick Law Olmsted, Lawrence Halprin--and of less well known pioneers, including Australian architect Glenn Murcutt and Danish landscape artist C. Th. Sørensen. She discusses instances of great landscape designers using landscape fluently, masterfully, and sometimes cynically. And, in a probing analysis of the many meanings of landscape, Spirn shows how one person's ideal landscape may be another's nightmare, how Utopian landscapes can be dark. There is danger when we lose the connection between a place and our understanding of it, Spirn warns, and she calls for change in the way we shape our environment, based on the notions of nature as a set of ideas and landscape as the expression of action and ideas in place.

Armenian

Author : Jasmine Dum-Tragut
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027288798
Total Pages : 761 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Armenian written by Jasmine Dum-Tragut and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2009-12-17 with total page 761 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This grammar of Modern Eastern Armenian gives a precise and explicit description of the Eastern Armenian language of the Republic of Armenia. It covers not only the normative tradition but, more importantly, also describes the colloquial language as it is used in Armenia today. With regard to methodological approach and terminology it fully meets the demands of modern general linguistics and typology. This grammar will be of interest not only to the specialised readership of descriptive and comparative linguists, of typologists and of armenologists, but to all those who would like to acquaint themselves with linguistic data from living Armenian. It will also be of use to students wishing to learn Modern Eastern Armenian and to lecturers in Modern Eastern Armenian language courses.

Languages after Brexit

Author : Michael Kelly
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319651692
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book Languages after Brexit written by Michael Kelly and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-20 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book represents a significant intervention into the debates surrounding Brexit and language policy. It analyses the language capabilities and resources of the United Kingdom in a new, post-referendum climate, in which public hostility towards foreign languages is matched by the necessity of renegotiating and building relationships with the rest of Europe and beyond. The authors scrutinize the availability of key resources in diverse sectors of society including politics, economics, business, science and education, while simultaneously offering practical advice and guidance on how to thrive in the new international environment. This extremely timely edited collection brings together leading researchers from across the field of language policy, and is sure to appeal not only to students and scholars of this subject, but also to practitioners, policy makers and educators.

Fraffly Well Spoken

Author : Afferbeck Lauder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780723400370
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Fraffly Well Spoken written by Afferbeck Lauder and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Languages and Dialects of London School Children

Author : Harold Rosen
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Languages and Dialects of London School Children written by Harold Rosen and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1980 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Introducing English Language

Author : Louise Mullany
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317479084
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Introducing English Language written by Louise Mullany and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Routledge English Language Introductions cover core areas of language study and are one-stop resources for students. Assuming no prior knowledge, books in the series offer an accessible overview of the subject, with activities, study questions, sample analyses, commentaries and key readings – all in the same volume. The innovative and flexible ‘two-dimensional’ structure is built around four sections – introduction, development, exploration and extension – which offer self-contained stages for study. Each topic can also be read across these sections, enabling the reader to build gradually on the knowledge gained. Introducing English Language: is the foundational book in the Routledge English Language Introductions series, providing an accessible introduction to the English language contains newly expanded coverage of morphology, updated and revised exercises, and an extended Further Reading section comprehensively covers key disciplines of linguistics such as historical linguistics, sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics, as well as core areas in language study including acquisition, standardisation and the globalisation of English uses a wide variety of real texts and images from around the world, including a Monty Python sketch, excerpts from novels such as Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, and news items from Metro and the BBC provides updated classic readings by the key names in the discipline, including Guy Cook, Andy Kirkpatrick and Zoltán Dörnyei is accompanied by a website with extra activities, project ideas for each unit, suggestions for further reading, links to essential English language resources, and course templates for lecturers. Written by two experienced teachers and authors, this accessible textbook is an essential resource for all students of the English language and linguistics.

The Lost Language of London

Author : Harold Bayley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Lost Language of London written by Harold Bayley and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Standard Languages and Language Standards – Greek, Past and Present

Author : Michael Silk
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317050592
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Standard Languages and Language Standards – Greek, Past and Present written by Michael Silk and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Standard Languages and Language Standards: Greek, Past and Present is a collection of essays with a distinctive focus and an unusual range. It brings together scholars from different disciplines, with a variety of perspectives, linguistic and literary, historical and social, to address issues of control, prescription, planning and perceptions of value over the long history of the Greek language, from the age of Homer to the present day. Under particular scrutiny are the processes of establishing a standard and the practices and ideologies of standardization. The diverse points of reference include: the Hellenistic koine and the literary classics of modern Greece; lexicography in late antiquity and today; Byzantine Greek, Pontic Greek and cyber-Greek; contested educational initiatives and competing understandings of the Greek language; the relation of linguistic study to standardization and the logic of a standard language. The aim of this ambitious project is not a comprehensive chronological survey or an exhaustive analysis. Rather, the editors have set out to provide a series of informed overviews and snapshots of telling cases that both illuminate the history of the Greek language and explore the nature of language standardization itself. The volume will be important for students and scholars of the Greek language, past and present, and, beyond the Greek example, for sociolinguists, historians and social scientists with interests in the role of language in the construction of identities.

The Language of Sport

Author : Adrian Beard
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415169110
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (691 download)

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Download or read book The Language of Sport written by Adrian Beard and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at sport in its wider social context. Examines the way sport sells itself as an agent of social cohesion and is used to sell products. Explores how sporting texts construct ideas about gender and national identity. Uses examples from events as diverse as Wimbledon tennis, Euro '96 and the World Athletics Championships.

Anecdote of the English Language; Chiefly Regarding the Local Dialect of London and Its Environs. To which is Added a Supplement to Grose's "provincial Glossary". 3. Ed. Ed. by Henry Christmas

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Author : Samuel Pegge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Anecdote of the English Language; Chiefly Regarding the Local Dialect of London and Its Environs. To which is Added a Supplement to Grose's "provincial Glossary". 3. Ed. Ed. by Henry Christmas written by Samuel Pegge and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Understanding Language Change

Author : Kate Burridge
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1315463008
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Language Change written by Kate Burridge and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2 Changes to the lexicon -- Introduction -- 2.1 Gaining words - lexical addition -- 2.1.1 Compounding -- 2.1.2 Affixation -- 2.1.3 Backformation -- 2.1.4 Conversion -- 2.1.5 Abbreviation -- 2.1.6 Acronyms -- 2.1.7 Blending -- 2.1.8 Commonization -- 2.1.9 Reduplication -- 2.1.10 Borrowing -- 2.1.11 Sound symbolism -- 2.1.12 A final word on the processes -- 2.2 Losing words - lexical mortality -- 2.2.1 Obsolescence -- 2.2.2 "Verbicide"--2.2.3 Reduction -- 2.2.4 Intolerable homonymy -- 2.3 Etymology - study of the origin of words -- Summary -- Further reading -- Exercises

The Language Wars

Author : Henry Hitchings
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429995033
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Language Wars written by Henry Hitchings and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The English language is a battlefield. Since the age of Shakespeare, arguments over correct usage have been bitter, and have always really been about contesting values-morality, politics, and class. The Language Wars examines the present state of the conflict, its history, and its future. Above all, it uses the past as a way of illuminating the present. Moving chronologically, the book explores the most persistent issues to do with English and unpacks the history of "proper" usage. Where did these ideas spring from? Who has been on the front lines in the language wars? The Language Wars examines grammar rules, regional accents, swearing, spelling, dictionaries, political correctness, and the role of electronic media in reshaping language. It also takes a look at such details as the split infinitive, elocution, and text messaging. Peopled with intriguing characters such as Jonathan Swift, Lewis Carroll, and Lenny Bruce, The Language Wars is an essential volume for anyone interested in the state of the English language today or its future.

Tabloid Britain

Author : Martin Conboy
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415355520
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Tabloid Britain written by Martin Conboy and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2006 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Packed with examples from four popular tabloids, taken from recent editions in a month long study by the author, this book offers insight into how the tabloids have become so influential in everyday British life.