ENGLISH

Cockney Past and Present: A Short History of the Dialect of London

By William Matthews

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2015
ISBN
1138915939, 9781138915930
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
11 MB (12048959 bytes)
Series
Routledge Library Editions: The English Language 5
Edition
1st
Pages
264\264
Time added
2018-06-11 15:58:43
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Description

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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