Sorensen Janet
Sorensen Janet - Strange Vernaculars How Eighteenth - Century Slang Cant Provincial Languages And Nautical Jargon Became English - Hardcover
Sorensen Janet - Strange Vernaculars How Eighteenth - Century Slang Cant Provincial Languages And Nautical Jargon Became English - Hardcover
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Binding: Hardcover
Description: 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
Title: Strange Vernaculars How Eighteenth - Century Slang Cant Provincial Languages And Nautical Jargon Became English
Author(s): Sorensen Janet
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Barcode: 9780691169026
Pages: 352 Pages, 8 Line Illus.
Publication Date: 6/6/2017
Category: Social & Cultural History
Description: 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
Title: Strange Vernaculars How Eighteenth - Century Slang Cant Provincial Languages And Nautical Jargon Became English
Author(s): Sorensen Janet
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Barcode: 9780691169026
Pages: 352 Pages, 8 Line Illus.
Publication Date: 6/6/2017
Category: Social & Cultural History
