Everyday Language and Everyday Life

ISBN-13: 9781138509917 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 198 str.

Richard Hoggart

Opis

For years Richard Hoggart has observed the oddity of a common speech habit: the fondness for employing ready-made sayings and phrasings whenever we open our mouths, a disinclination to form our own sentences "from scratch," unless that becomes inescapable

Spis treści

Acknowledgments, Preface, Introduction, 1. Beginnings, 2. Poverty and Its Languages, 3. Family and Neighbourhood (I), 4. Family and Neighbourhood (II), 5. Family and Neighbourhood (III), 6. Work, Class, Manners, 7. Language and Vulgarity: The Life of the Mind, 8. Live and Let Live, 9. Many Beliefs, 10. A Gathering: And a Glance at Today, Index

O autorze

Hoggart, Richard