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Liverpool: A Memoir of Words
Engelsk Hardback
Liverpool: A Memoir of Words
Engelsk Hardback

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Included in the TLS Books of the Year 2023 Written by an author brought up in working-class Liverpool in the 1960s and 1970s, Liverpool: A Memoir of Words is a work of creative non-fiction that combines the study of language in Liverpool with social history, the history of the English language and personal memoir. A beautifully written book, based on a lifetime’s academic research, it explores the relationship between language and memory, and demonstrates the ways in which words are enmeshed in history and history in words. Starting with ‘Ace’ and weaving its way alphabetically to ‘Z-Cars’, the work illustrates the deep relationship that has been forged in the past two hundred years or so between a form of language, a place and a social identity. The account is funny, sad, full of surprises and always illuminating. It tells the real history of ‘Scouse’, details the multicultural complexity of Liverpool English, examines the common use of ‘plazzymorphs’, and shows how Liverpudlian words exemplify standard processes of change and development. Neither a memoir, dictionary or history book, this work crosses different fields of knowledge in order to weave an engaging and fascinating story. It is a book that will educate and delight Liverpudlians, students of language and social historians alike.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
224
ISBN-13:
9781837644384
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1837644381
Udg. Dato:
1 nov 2023
Længde:
24mm
Bredde:
224mm
Højde:
148mm
Forlag:
Liverpool University Press
Oplagsdato:
1 nov 2023
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