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Lost Words and Lost Worlds - Modernity and the Language of Everyday Life in Late Nineteenth-Century Stockholm (Paperback, New ed)
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Lost Words and Lost Worlds - Modernity and the Language of Everyday Life in Late Nineteenth-Century Stockholm (Paperback, New ed)
Series: Cambridge Human Geography
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The last quarter of the nineteenth century was the most dramatic
era in the social and spatial transformation of Stockholm. During
this time large-scale manufacturing industry rose and eclipsed
small-scale artisan sectors of production; the city's population
virtually doubled and there was a rapid extension and rebuilding of
the urban fabric. Allan Pred reconstructs this transformation of
Stockholm's local economy, civil society and built environment
between 1880 and 1900 through an interpretation of lost elements of
language, or forgotten fragments of daily discourse, of lost words
and meanings that belonged to members of the working and
periodically employed classes. His analysis reveals that a language
of production, distribution and consumption practices subsumed a
language of discipline-avoidance and survival tactics. He
demonstrates that the 'folk geography', or language used for
negotiating the city streets and getting from here to there,
subsumed a language of ideological resistance; that a language of
social reference and address, the tagging of nicknames on groups
and individuals, subsumed a language of boundary transgression; and
that these languages were cross-cut by folk humour, by a vocabulary
of comic irony and irreverence.
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