Scouse
A Social and Cultural History
Distributed for Liverpool University Press
224 pages
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6 x 9
No place in Britain is more closely associated with a distinct dialect than Liverpool, yet the complex and fascinating history of language in Liverpool has been obscured by misrepresentation and myth. Scouse presents a groundbreaking and iconoclastic account of language in Liverpool, offering a new alternative to currently accepted history. Drawing on a huge breadth of sources—from plays to newspaper accounts to reports to little-known essays—and informed by recent developments in linguistic anthropology and sociolinguistics, Tony Crowley charts the complex relationship between language and place.
Frank Cottrell-Boyce, screenwriter for 24 Hour Party People and Millions
“Can there be an archaeology of sound? Tony Crowley raids newspapers, journals, letters, and his own memories in an attempt to trace the history of a manner of speaking. In doing so he tells the story of the rise and fall of a whole city, a way of life. This is an eccentric, creative, quixotic, scholarly, and ultimately emotional book that is unlike anything else I've ever read.”
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