The Liverpool English Dictionary

The Liverpool English Dictionary
Author: Tony Crowley
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2017-09-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1786946041

From ‘Abbadabba’ to ‘Z-Cars’, this remarkable dictionary records the rich vocabulary that has evolved over the past century and a half, as part of the complex, stratified, multi-faceted and changing culture of Liverpool. The roots/routes, meanings and histories of the words of Liverpool are presented in a concise, clear and accessible format.

The Liverpool English Dictionary

The Liverpool English Dictionary
Author: Tony Crowley
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2017-09-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1786948338

From ‘Abbadabba’ to ‘Z-Cars’, this remarkable dictionary records the rich vocabulary that has evolved over the past century and a half, as part of the complex, stratified, multi-faceted and changing culture of Liverpool. The roots/routes, meanings and histories of the words of Liverpool are presented in a concise, clear and accessible format.

Sound change, priming, salience

Sound change, priming, salience
Author: Marten Juskan
Publisher: Language Science Press
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2018-10-17
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3961101191

This volume investigates the realisation and perception of four phonological variables in Liverpool English (Scouse), with a special focus on their sociolinguistic salience. Younger speakers’ speech is found to be more local, but only for the two salient variables in the sample (NURSE-SQUARE and /k/ lenition), which appear to carry considerable amounts of covert prestige. Local variants of non-salient happy-tensing and velar nasal plus, on the other hand, are actually found to be receding, so at least to a certain extent Scouse also seems to be participating in regional dialect levelling. The importance of salience is also obvious in the perception data, with only the two highly salient stereotypes generating robust effects in a social priming experiment (albeit in the unexpected direction). These results indicate that the investigated variables differ measurably not only in their use in production, but also in terms of how central they are to mental sociolinguistic representations of Scouse. They also tell us more about the way we process, store, and (re-)use sociolinguistic variation in perception. By defining likely contexts for significant priming effects they might finally even help in coming up with a more elaborate

Liverpool: A Memoir of Words

Liverpool: A Memoir of Words
Author: Tony Crowley
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2023-09-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1835532268

Written by an author brought up in working-class Liverpool in the 1960s and 1970s, Liverpool: A Memoir of Words is a work of creative non-fiction that combines the study of language in Liverpool with social history, the history of the English language and personal memoir. A beautifully written book, based on a lifetime’s academic research, it explores the relationship between language and memory, and demonstrates the ways in which words are enmeshed in history and history in words. Starting with ‘Ace’ and weaving its way alphabetically to ‘Z-Cars’, the work illustrates the deep relationship that has been forged in the past two hundred years or so between a form of language, a place and a social identity. The account is funny, sad, full of surprises and always illuminating. It tells the real history of ‘Scouse’, details the multicultural complexity of Liverpool English, examines the common use of ‘plazzymorphs’, and shows how Liverpudlian words exemplify standard processes of change and development. Neither a memoir, dictionary or history book, this work crosses different fields of knowledge in order to weave an engaging and fascinating story. It is a book that will educate and delight Liverpudlians, students of language and social historians alike.

British Women's Writing, 1930 to 1960

British Women's Writing, 1930 to 1960
Author: Sue Kennedy
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2020-07-17
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1789627621

This volume contributes to the vibrant, ongoing recuperative work on women’s writing by shedding new light on a group of authors commonly dismissed as middlebrow in their concerns and conservative in their styles and politics. The neologism ‘interfeminism’ – coined to partner Kristin Bluemel’s ‘intermodernism’ – locates this group chronologically and ideologically between two ‘waves’ of feminism, whilst also forging connections between the political and cultural monoliths that have traditionally overshadowed them. Drawing attention to the strengths of this ‘out-of-category’ writing in its own right, this volume also highlights how intersecting discourses of gender, class and society in the interwar and postwar periods pave the way for the bold reassessments of female subjectivity that characterise second and third wave feminism. The essays showcase the stylistic, cultural and political vitality of a substantial group of women authors of fiction, non-fiction, drama, poetry and journalism including Vera Brittain, Storm Jameson, Nancy Mitford, Phyllis Shand Allfrey, Rumer Godden, Attia Hosain, Doris Lessing, Kamala Markandaya, Susan Ertz, Marghanita Laski, Elizabeth Bowen, Edith Pargeter, Eileen Bigland, Nancy Spain, Vera Laughton Matthews, Pamela Hansford Johnson, Dorothy Whipple, Elizabeth Taylor, Daphne du Maurier, Barbara Comyns, Shelagh Delaney, Stevie Smith and Penelope Mortimer. Additional exploration of the popular magazines Woman’s Weekly and Good Housekeeping and new material from the Vera Brittain archive add an innovative dimension to original readings of the literature of a transformative period of British social and cultural history. List of contributors: Natasha Periyan, Eleanor Reed, Maroula Joannou , Lola Serraf, Sue Kennedy, Ana Ashraf, Chris Hopkins, Gill Plain, Lucy Hall, Katherine Cooper, Nick Turner, Maria Elena Capitani, James Underwood, and Jane Thomas.

Listening to the Past

Listening to the Past
Author: Raymond Hickey
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 607
Release: 2017-04-20
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1107051576

The first edited volume to document and analyse early audio recordings of the English language.

Liverpool English

Liverpool English
Author: Kevin Watson
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2021-06-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781501515934

This book provides a detailed overview of the main phonological, grammatical, lexical and discourse features of Liverpool English (LE). These will be discussed in terms of (1) LE's past, including the origins of the variety, and its relationships with other north-west English dialects and Irish varieties, and (2) ongoing change in LE, including the extent to which LE linguistic features are levelling or diverging from supralocal norms.

Perspectives on Northern Englishes

Perspectives on Northern Englishes
Author: Sylvie Hancil
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2017-07-10
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110448742

Northern English has been the object of much attention linguistically over the last thirty years but scholars have had a tendency to focus on the phonology of the dialects and varieties encountered. The purpose of the present volume is to complement and enrich the existing studies by providing readers with a kaleidoscopic perspective, allowing for a holistic interpretation and understanding of Northern English. It includes studies not only on phonology but also on semantics, syntax and sociolinguistics from a synchronic and diachronic point of view, with a special emphasis on the process of enregisterment. The varieties covered include Scottish Standard English, Shetland and Northern Ireland as well as varieties from the North of England.

Legitimate Expectations and Proportionality in Administrative Law

Legitimate Expectations and Proportionality in Administrative Law
Author: Robert Thomas
Publisher: Hart Publishing
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2000-09
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1841130869

Presents a comparison of the development in European and English law of two legal principles, legitimate expectations and proportionality, against the different traditions of administrative law. Looks at case law of the English courts and the European Court of Justice, and explains why English courts have been troubled by legitimate expectations and proportionality and how such difficulties can be resolved. Suggests that problems associated with these principles are connected to different cultural approaches to the appropriate role of law in the modern state. Of interest to administrative lawyers. The author teaches law at the University of Manchester. Distributed by ISBS. c. Book News Inc.