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By Tony Crowley

Nowhere in Britain is extra heavily linked to a kind of language than Liverpool. but the heritage of language in Liverpool has been obscured by means of misrepresentation and myth-making and narratives of Liverpool's linguistic previous have scarcely performed justice to the wealthy, advanced and interesting background which produced it. Scouse: A Social and Cultural historical past provides a ground-breaking and iconoclastic account which demanding situations some of the sorts of obtained knowledge approximately language in Liverpool and provides another model of the at present authorised heritage. starting from the mid eighteenth century to the current, the e-book explores facts from a number of alternative assets together with the 1st histories of Liverpool, a unprecedented slaving drama set within the port, a bad condominium file which files the 1st use of 'Scouse' (the dish), 19th century debates on Gladstone's speech, the 'lost' literature of the town, early to mid 20th century newspaper money owed of Liverpudlian phrases, idioms and traditions, little-known essays which coined using 'Scouse' to consult the language of Liverpool, points of pop culture within the Nineteen Fifties and 60s, the Lern Yerself Scouse sequence, and examples drawn from modern literature. moreover the research attracts on contemporary advancements in the fields of sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology - fairly with reference to the research of language and id and the connection among language and a feeling of position - with the intention to offer a notably new knowing of 'Scouse' by way of its heritage, its illustration, and its modern social and cultural significance.

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