Strange Vernaculars - Sorensen, Janet
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"Sorensen integrates perspectives from historical sociolinguistics, dialectology, lexicography, literary criticism, folklore, and social history to give us a fresh and fascinating account of the growth of vernacular English in the early modern period. In her breadth of reading and depth of illustrative detail, she provides a hugely insightful contribution to our knowledge of the history of English studies that will quickly make Strange Vernaculars a standard work of reference."--David Crystal, author of The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language "In this marvelous book, Sorensen…mehr

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"Sorensen integrates perspectives from historical sociolinguistics, dialectology, lexicography, literary criticism, folklore, and social history to give us a fresh and fascinating account of the growth of vernacular English in the early modern period. In her breadth of reading and depth of illustrative detail, she provides a hugely insightful contribution to our knowledge of the history of English studies that will quickly make Strange Vernaculars a standard work of reference."--David Crystal, author of The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language "In this marvelous book, Sorensen recovers overlooked complexities in the stories of national unification and linguistic standardization often recounted by scholars of Enlightenment Britain. Her discussion of the charisma that eighteenth-century writers and readers attached to heteroglot, canting, and riddling Englishes also represents an innovative work of literary history. Strange Vernaculars is remarkable for its erudition and its author's keen ear for verbal fun."--Deidre Lynch, author of Loving Literature "Any student of eighteenth-century English literature and culture is aware to some extent of the important presence, or significant absence, of the regional or provincial speech in the literature of that period. But no one as far as I know has produced an authoritative, comprehensive, and fine-grained study of these vocabularies and what they signify and imply. This is a major, pathbreaking book."--John Richetti, University of Pennsylvania "This brilliant book is a wise analysis of a range of vernacular words--slang, thieves' jargon, sailors' dialect--found in an admirably broad survey of reference works and canonical and noncanonical eighteenth-century literature. I enjoyed the detailed literary and cultural contexts and was incredibly impressed by the breadth of primary linguistic sources and secondary scholarship. Providing rich, interconnected perspectives on language, literature, and cultural history, Sorensen's argument is persuasively sophisticated."--Carol Percy, University of Toronto
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Janet Sorensen