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Language, Self and Society: A Social History of Language

Roy Porter (Editor), Peter Burke (Editor)
ISBN: 978-0-7456-1341-3
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368 pages
January 1991, Polity
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Introduction.

1. Heu domine, adsunt Turcae: A Sketch for a Social History of Post-medieval Latin: Peter Burke.

2. The Uses of Hebrew in the English Revolution: Nigel Smith.

3. From Shibboleth to Apocalypse: Quaker Speechways during the Puritan Revolution: Hugh Ormsby-Lennon.

4. 'New World of English Words': John Ray, FRS, the Dialect Protagonist, in the Context of his Times (1658 - 1691): Jo Gladstone.

5. The People's English: Language and Class in England c.1840 - 1920: Patrick Joyce.

6. Languages and Conquerors: Victor Kiernan.

7. Towards a Semiotics of the Nerve: The Social History of Language in a New Key: G. S. Rousseau.

8. Expressing Yourself Ill: The Language of Sickness in Georgian England: Roy Porter.

9. 'A New Sort of Logick and Critick': Etymological Interpretation in Horne Tooke's The Diversions of Purley: Daniel Rosenberg.

Afterword: Dell Hymes.

Index.

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