Social History of Language

List of contents

List of illustrations; 1. Introduction Peter Burke; 2. The uses of literacy in early modern Italy Peter Burke; 3. Proverbs and social history James Obelkevich; 4. The language of quackery in England, 1660-1800 Roy Porter; 5. Verbal insults in eighteenth-century Paris David Garrioch; 6. Le langage mâle de la vertu: women and the discourse of the French Revolution Dorinda Outram; 7. Words and institutions during the French Revolution: the case of 'revolutionary' scientific and technical education Janis Langins; 8. The sociology of a text: oral culture, literacy and print in early New Zealand D. F. McKenzie; 9. The historian and the Questione della Lingua Jonathan Steinberg; Bibliographical essay; Index.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Burke, Ruth Finnegan
• Assisted by: Peter Burke (Editor), Ruth H. Finnegan (Editor), Roy Porter (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.10.1987
• EAN: 9780521317634
• ISBN: 978-0-521-31763-4
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Oral & Li
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics