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- Title
- We Are Not Amused: Victorian Views on Pronunciation as Told in t
- ISBN
- 9781851244782
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Bodleian Library
ISBN-10
1851244786
ISBN-13
9781851244782
eBay Product ID (ePID)
234229335
Product Key Features
Book Title
We Are Not Amused : Victorian Views on Pronunciation As Told in the Pages of Punch
Number of Pages
96 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2018
Topic
Topic / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional, Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), Speech, Linguistics / Historical & Comparative, Topic / Language
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Language Arts & Disciplines, Humor, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
12.4 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Table Of Content
Contents Introduction Mr Punch tries to help Why then? Elocution Walker Provincial peculiarities Poor letter H- upstairs and downstairs Going too far The demand for elocution Spelling out H Spelling bees Cockney vowels Keb, sir? Vowel washing Ambiguities Posh pronunciation Personal intewest Scots pronunciation The wh- problem Dr Johnson on the Scots accent Inoffensive Boswell Pronouncing place-names Underground pronunciations Law and Lindley Murray Pronouncing surnames Actors' pronunciation American pronunciation Taking Cockney seriously? Leaving Walker behind Picture Credits
Synopsis
Pronunciation governs our regional and social identity more powerfully than any other aspect of spoken language. No wonder, then, that it has attracted most attention from satirists. In this intriguing book, David Crystal shows how our feelings about pronunciation today have their origins in the way our Victorian predecessors thought about the subject, as revealed in the pages of the satirical magazine, Punch . In the sixty years between its first issue in 1841 and the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, jokes about the fashions affecting English usage provide one of Punch' s most fruitful veins of humour, from the dropped aitches of the Cockney accent to the upper-class habit of dropping the final 'g' (huntin' and fishin'). For We Are Not Amused , David Crystal has examined all the issues during the reign of Queen Victoria and brought together the cartoons and articles that poked fun at the subject of pronunciation, adding a commentary on the context of the times, explaining why people felt so strongly about accents, and identifying which accents were the main source of jokes. The collection brings to light a society where class distinction ruled, and where the way you pronounced a word was seen as a sometimes damning index of who you were and how you should be treated. It is a fascinating, provocative and highly entertaining insight into our on-going amusement at the subject of how we speak., Pronunciation governs our regional and social identity more powerfully than any other aspect of spoken language. No wonder, then, that it has attracted most attention from satirists. In this intriguing book, David Crystal shows how our feelings about pronunciation today have their origins in the way our Victorian predecessors thought about the subject, as revealed in the pages of the satirical magazine, Punch. In the sixty years between its first issue in 1841 and the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, jokes about the fashions affecting English usage provide one of Punch's most fruitful veins of humour, from the dropped aitches of the Cockney accent to the upper-class habit of dropping the final 'g' (huntin' and fishin'). For 'We Are Not Amused', David Crystal has examined all the issues during the reign of Queen Victoria and brought together the cartoons and articles that poked fun at the subject of pronunciation, adding a commentary on the context of the times, explaining why people felt so strongly about accents, and identifying which accents were the main source of jokes. The collection brings to light a society where class distinction ruled, and where the way you pronounced a word was seen as a sometimes damning index of who you were and how you should be treated. It is a fascinating, provocative and highly entertaining insight into our on-going amusement at the subject of how we speak., Have you ever cringed while hearing someone mispronounce a word--or, worse, been tripped up by a wily silent letter yourself? Consider yourself lucky that you do not live in Victorian England, when the way you pronounced a word was seen as a sometimes-damning index of who you were and how you should be treated. No wonder then that jokes about English usage provided one of Punch magazine's most fruitful veins of humor for sixty years, from its first issue in 1841 to 1900. For We Are Not Amused , renowned English-language expert David Crystal has explored the most common pronunciation-related controversies during the reign of Queen Victoria and brought together the cartoons and articles that poked fun at them, adding insightful commentary on the context of the times. The collection brings to light a society where class distinctions ruled. Crystal explains why people felt so strongly about accents and identifies which accents were the main sources of jokes, from the dropped h 's of the Cockney working class to the upper-class tendency to drop the final g in words like "huntin'" and "fishin'." In this fascinating and highly entertaining book, Crystal shows that outrage over proper pronunciation is nothing new--our feelings today have their origins in the ways our Victorian predecessors thought about the subject.
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