1st Edition
Cockney Past and Present A Short History of the Dialect of London
By William Matthews
Copyright 1938
262 Pages
by
Routledge
510 Pages
by
Routledge
510 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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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