The Social History of LanguagePeter Burke, Roy Porter Cambridge University Press, 22 d’oct. 1987 - 219 pàgines In the last few years, social historians have discovered what might be called the 'linguistic dimension' of their discipline, just as sociolinguists have been discovering the 'historical dimension' and historians of language the 'social dimension'. They have become interested in language both as a source for social history and also as a historical phenomenon in its own right. This volume of essays brings together some of this recent work by social historians of Britain, France and Italy from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. The authors concern themselves with the politics as well as the sociology of language; with dialect as well as standard languages; with writing as well as speech; with the language of women as well as that of men; with the language of politeness and the language of insult; the language of deference and the language of revolt; the language of sub-cultures and counter-cultures as well as those of the elites and 'the people'. |
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Introduction | 1 |
The uses of literacy in early modern Italy | 21 |
Proverbs and social history | 43 |
The language of quackery in England 16601800 | 73 |
Verbal insults in eighteenthcentury Paris | 104 |
Le langage mále de la vertu Women and the Discourse of the Frech Revolution | 120 |
Words and institutions during the French Revolution the case revolutionary scientific and technical education | 136 |
The sociology of a text Oral culture literacy and print in early New Zealand | 161 |
The historian and the Questions della Lingua | 198 |
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