{"product_id":"strange-vernaculars-how-eighteenthcentury-slang-cant-provincial-languages-and-nautical-jargon-became-english-9780691169026","title":"Strange Vernaculars  How EighteenthCentury Slang","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Show[s] how discourses on the English language both reflected and galvanized the forces of cultural and political hegemony in Britain, and those of expansion, empire and slavery on a global scale.\"\u003cb\u003e---John Gallagher, \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Sorensen shows how a wide range of authors represented and classified the real or imagined speech of lower status groups, refashioning it as 'strange vernaculars'. . . . She is especially strong on the hidden role of race. . . . Her final section on sailors' talk includes some fine points on Jane Austen, and on the allure of naval speech as both foreign and familiar, an allure that lies at the heart of the book.\"\u003cb\u003e---Elspeth Jajdelska, \u003ci\u003eTimes Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Sorensen brings together sociolinguistics and literary history in an innovative and subtle exploration of the social cachet that heteroglossia had for writers in the 18th century. . . . This sensitive work is both a contribution to 18th- century studies and a model of how heteroglossia in literature might be investigated in other eras.\" * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\"For readers interested in the evolution of English, this is a fascinating look at the role strangeness and otherness played in the development of a national language and identity.\"\u003cb\u003e---James Holloway, \u003ci\u003eFortean Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I learned much from \u003ci\u003eStrange Vernaculars, \u003c\/i\u003ea dense, demanding, and thoroughly rewarding book.\"\u003cb\u003e---Jack Lynch, \u003ci\u003eOxford Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments ix  Introduction 1  I Wandering Languages: From Cant To Slang 25  1 Reappraising Cant: \"Caterpillars\" and Slaves 27  2 Daniel Defoe's Novel Languages 57  3 John Gay's Overloaded Languages 86  4 The Gendered Slang of Century's End 106  II The Language Of Place: From \"living\" Provincial Languages To The Language Of The Dead 129  5 Provincial Languages out of Place 133  6 \"I Do Not Like London or Anything That Is in It\": The Provincial Offensive 167  7 Provincial Languages and a Vernacular out of Time 192  III Wandering In Place: Maritime Language 231  8 Our Tars: Making Maritime Language English 234  Notes 273  Index 321","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403823817047,"sku":"9780691169026","price":40.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691169026.jpg?v=1730484650","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/strange-vernaculars-how-eighteenthcentury-slang-cant-provincial-languages-and-nautical-jargon-became-english-9780691169026","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}