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Languages : en
Pages : 84
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Errors of pronunciation, and improper expressions used ... chiefly by the inhabitants of London, to which are added, those in similar use, chiefly by the inhabitants of Paris
Author: The Antijacobin Review, True Churchman's Magazine, and Protestant Advocate
Author: The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal
Author: The Monthly Review
Author: Ralph GriffithsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Monthly Review; Or New Literary Journal
Author: Ralph GriffithsPublisher:
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Editors: May 1749-Sept. 1803, Ralph Griffiths; Oct. 1803-Apr. 1825, G.E. Griffiths.
Monthly Review; Or Literary Journal Enlarged
Author: Ralph GriffithsPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
Editors: May 1749-Sept. 1803, Ralph Griffiths; Oct. 1803-Apr. 1825, G. E. Griffiths.
The Uncanny in Language, Literature and Culture
Author: Sarah StollmanPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1036405303
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
In his attempts to define the uncanny, Sigmund Freud asserted that the concept is undoubtedly related to what is frightening, to what arouses dread and horror. Yet the sensation is prompted, simultaneously, by something familiar, establishing a sense of insecurity within the domestic, even within the walls of one’s own home. This disturbance of the familiar further unsettles the sense of oneself. A resultant perturbed relationship between a person and their familiar world — the troubled sense of home and self-certainty — can be the result of a traumatic experience of loss, and of unresolved pasts resurfacing in the present. Memory traces are revised and interwoven with fresh experiences producing an uncanny effect. As “an externalization of consciousness”, the uncanny becomes a meta-concept for modernity with its disintegration of time, space, and self. The papers in this book seek to explore the representations of the uncanny in language, literature, and culture, applying the origins of the concept to a range of ideas and works.
The Social Life of Words
Author: Laura WrightPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 111988103X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
A new approach to sociolinguistics, introducing the study of the social meaning of English words over time, and offering an engaging and entertaining demonstration of lexical sociolinguistic analysis The Social Life of Words: A Historical Approach explores the rise and fall of the social properties of words, charting ways in which they take on new social connotations. Written in an engaging narrative style, this entertaining text matches up sociolinguistic theory with social history and biography to discover which kind of people used what kind of word, where and when. Social factors such as class, age, race, region, gender, occupation, religion and criminality are discussed in British and American English. From familiar words such as popcorn, porridge, café, to less common words like burgoo, califont, etna, and phrases like kiss me quick, monkey parade, slap-bang shop, The Social Life of Words demonstrates some of the many ways a new word or phrase can develop social affiliations. Detailed yet accessible chapters cover key areas of historical sociolinguistics, including concepts such as social networks, communities of practice, indexicality and enregisterment, prototypes and stereotypes, polysemy, onomasiology, language regard, lexical appropriation, and more. The first book to take a focused look at lexis as a topic for sociolinguistic analysis, The Social Life of Words: Introduces sociolinguistic theories and shows how they can be applied to the lexicon Demonstrates how readers can apply sociolinguistic theory to their own analyses of words in English and other languages Provides an engaging and amusing new look at many familiar words, inviting students to explore the sociolinguistic properties of words over time for themselves Part of Wiley Blackwell’s acclaimed Language in Society series, The Social Life of Words is essential reading for upper-level undergraduate students, graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and linguists working in sociolinguistics, lexical semantics, English lexicology, and the history and development of modern English.
English Dialect Society
Author: Rev. Walter W. Skeat, M.A., and J. H. NodalPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
A Bibliographical List of the Works that Have Been Published, Or are Known to Exist in Ms
Author: Walter William SkeatPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description