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Scouse - A Social and Cultural History (Hardcover, New)
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Scouse - A Social and Cultural History (Hardcover, New)
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Nowhere in Britain is more closely associated with a form of
language than Liverpool. Yet the history of language in Liverpool
has been obscured by misrepresentation and myth-making and
narratives of Liverpool's linguistic past have scarcely done
justice to the rich, complex and fascinating history which produced
it. Scouse: A Social and Cultural History presents a
ground-breaking and iconoclastic account which challenges many of
the forms of received wisdom about language in Liverpool and
presents an alternative version of the currently accepted history.
Ranging from the mid eighteenth century to the present, the book
explores evidence from a host of different sources including the
first histories of Liverpool, a rare slaving drama set in the port,
a poor house report which records the first use of 'Scouse' (the
dish), nineteenth century debates on Gladstone's speech, the 'lost'
literature of the city, early to mid twentieth century newspaper
accounts of Liverpudlian words, idioms and traditions, little-known
essays which coined the use of 'Scouse' to refer to the language of
Liverpool, aspects of popular culture in the 1950s and 60s, the
Lern Yerself Scouse series, and examples drawn from contemporary
literature. In addition the analysis draws on recent developments
within the fields of sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology -
particularly with regard to the study of language and identity and
the relationship between language and a sense of place - in order
to provide a radically new understanding of 'Scouse' in terms of
its history, its representation, and its contemporary social and
cultural significance.
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