Although Cockney can be considered to be one of the most important non-standard forms of English, there had been little to no scholarly attention on the dialect prior to William Matthews’s 1938 volume Cockney Past and Present. Matthews traced the course of the speech of London from the sixteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century by gathering information from many sources including plays, novels, music-hall songs, the comments of critics and the speech and recollections of living Cockneys. This book will be of interest to students of language and linguistics.
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William Matthews Imprint: Routledge Country of Publication: United Kingdom Volume: 17 Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Weight: 521g ISBN:9781138915930 ISBN 10: 1138915939 Series:Routledge Library Editions: The English Language Pages: 264 Publication Date:25 June 2015 Audience:
General/trade
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College/higher education
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ELT Advanced
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Primary
Format:Hardback Publisher's Status: Active
Preface; 1. Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries 2. Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 3. Present-Day Cockney 4. Cockney in the Music-Hall 5. Mannerisms and Slang 6. Pronunciation and Grammar 7. The Influence of Cockney on Standard English; Bibliography; Index
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