Author: Anonymous
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 146553332X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 6975
Book Description
Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary Historical and Comparative of the Heterodox Speech of all Classes of Society for More than Three Hundred Years with Synonyms in English, French, German, Italian, etc.
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 146553332X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 6975
Book Description
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 146553332X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 6975
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Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present
Author: John Stephen Farmer
Publisher:
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Category : Slang
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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Category : Slang
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present
Author: William Ernest Henley
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: Fla to Hyps
Author: John Stephen Farmer
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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Publisher:
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present
Author: John Stephen Farmer
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Category : English language
Languages : de
Pages : 428
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Category : English language
Languages : de
Pages : 428
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Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: Ice to Hyps
Author: John Stephen Farmer
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present
Author: John Stephen Farmer
Publisher:
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Category : Slang
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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Publisher:
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Category : Slang
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: C to Fizzle
Author: John Stephen Farmer
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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Beyond Words
Author: Steven Connor
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1780233035
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
In Beyond Words, Steven Connor seeks to understand spoken human language outside words, a realm that encompasses the sounds we make that bring depth, meaning, and confusion to communication. Plunging into the connotations and uses associated with particular groups of vocal utterances—the guttural, the dental, the fricative, and the sibilant—he reveals the beliefs, the myths, and the responses that surround the growls, stutters, ums, ers, and ahs of everyday language. Beyond Words goes outside of linguistics and phonetics to focus on the popular conceptions of what language is, rather than what it actually is or how it works. From the moans and sobs of human grief to playful linguistic nonsense, Connor probes the fringes and limits of human language—and our definition of “voice” and meaning—to challenge our basic assumptions about what it is to communicate and where we find meaning in language. By engaging with vocal sounds and tics usually trivialized or ignored, Beyond Words presents a startling and fascinating new way to engage with language itself.
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1780233035
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
In Beyond Words, Steven Connor seeks to understand spoken human language outside words, a realm that encompasses the sounds we make that bring depth, meaning, and confusion to communication. Plunging into the connotations and uses associated with particular groups of vocal utterances—the guttural, the dental, the fricative, and the sibilant—he reveals the beliefs, the myths, and the responses that surround the growls, stutters, ums, ers, and ahs of everyday language. Beyond Words goes outside of linguistics and phonetics to focus on the popular conceptions of what language is, rather than what it actually is or how it works. From the moans and sobs of human grief to playful linguistic nonsense, Connor probes the fringes and limits of human language—and our definition of “voice” and meaning—to challenge our basic assumptions about what it is to communicate and where we find meaning in language. By engaging with vocal sounds and tics usually trivialized or ignored, Beyond Words presents a startling and fascinating new way to engage with language itself.
London Fog
Author: Christine L. Corton
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674088352
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice A Telegraph Editor’s Choice An Evening Standard “Best Books about London” Selection In popular imagination, London is a city of fog. The classic London fogs, the thick yellow “pea-soupers,” were born in the industrial age of the early nineteenth century. Christine L. Corton tells the story of these epic London fogs, their dangers and beauty, and their lasting effects on our culture and imagination. “Engrossing and magnificently researched...Corton’s book combines meticulous social history with a wealth of eccentric detail. Thus we learn that London’s ubiquitous plane trees were chosen for their shiny, fog-resistant foliage. And since Jack the Ripper actually went out to stalk his victims on fog-free nights, filmmakers had to fake the sort of dank, smoke-wreathed London scenes audiences craved. It’s discoveries like these that make reading London Fog such an unusual, enthralling and enlightening experience.” —Miranda Seymour, New York Times Book Review “Corton, clad in an overcoat, with a linklighter before her, takes us into the gloomier, long 19th century, where she revels in its Gothic grasp. Beautifully illustrated, London Fog delves fascinatingly into that swirling miasma.” —Philip Hoare, New Statesman
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674088352
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice A Telegraph Editor’s Choice An Evening Standard “Best Books about London” Selection In popular imagination, London is a city of fog. The classic London fogs, the thick yellow “pea-soupers,” were born in the industrial age of the early nineteenth century. Christine L. Corton tells the story of these epic London fogs, their dangers and beauty, and their lasting effects on our culture and imagination. “Engrossing and magnificently researched...Corton’s book combines meticulous social history with a wealth of eccentric detail. Thus we learn that London’s ubiquitous plane trees were chosen for their shiny, fog-resistant foliage. And since Jack the Ripper actually went out to stalk his victims on fog-free nights, filmmakers had to fake the sort of dank, smoke-wreathed London scenes audiences craved. It’s discoveries like these that make reading London Fog such an unusual, enthralling and enlightening experience.” —Miranda Seymour, New York Times Book Review “Corton, clad in an overcoat, with a linklighter before her, takes us into the gloomier, long 19th century, where she revels in its Gothic grasp. Beautifully illustrated, London Fog delves fascinatingly into that swirling miasma.” —Philip Hoare, New Statesman