Nineteenth-century English / Richard W. Bailey.
Nineteenth-century English / Richard W. Bailey.
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Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c1996.
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N420909034/1 , T0384237
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Language
English
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Physical content
viii, 372 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Bilingual Ann Arbor -- Letter Writing -- Proper Posture -- Errrors of Speech -- Choice Dialect -- Elementary Spelling Book -- Arts & Crafts Printing -- Type Specimens -- Cranbrook Press -- Rotary Press -- Flat-bed Press -- An Illustrated Bible -- Tombstone Typefaces -- Symmetrical Layout -- Asymmetr...
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Publisher
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c1996.
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Michigan
Date Published
c1996.
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Summary
Six aspects of nineteenth-century English are treated in separate chapters: writing, sounds, words, slang, grammar, and voices. In each domain, innovation and obsolescence are discussed as they were observed by contemporary writers. Thus Bailey shows how linguistic details gained powerful social meaning in the emergent stratification by class, regi...
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Nineteenth-century English / Richard W. Bailey.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-346) and index.
Transferred from N420.909034/1.
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N420909034/1 , T0384237
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74VvDWbkzKXg
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ISBN
047210750X (acid-free paper)
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420.909034
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991004984159702626
