Protean shape : a study in eighteenth-century vocabulary and usage /: a study in eighteenth-century vocabulary and usage. ([2013])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Susie I. Tucker.
• Other Names: Tucker, Susie I
• Contents: Cover; CONTENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; PROLOGUE; PART ONE: THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY LOOKS AT ITS LANGUAGE; I. EXPOSITION AND DEFINITION; Foreigners; Dialect; Names of Diseases; Technicalities; Ambiguities; Vogue Words; Abstracts; II. CENSURE AND PROTEST; New, Strange and Mainly French; Latinate Diction; Americanisms; Scotticisms; Bombast; Linguistic Snobbery; Literary Affectation; Euphemism; Inelegant and Inappropriate Language; Language and Literature; Low and Familiar; Problems of Modernization; Archaism; Misuse; Technical Terms; Commercialese; The Professions; Women's Usage; Cant. Political LanguageAdvertisements; Sailors' Language; Levels of Language; Short-cuts; III. APOLOGY; IV. RECOMMENDATION; New Words, Wanted Words; English for French; Foreigners; Technicalities, Distinctions and Abstractions; Confusions and Distinctions; Taste and Colour; Art Terms; PART TWO: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY LOOKS BACK; V. THE UNKNOWN; VI. THE ENLIGHTENING; Eighteenth-Century Attitudes; Light on our Vocabulary; VII. THE UNDEVELOPED; VIII. THE MISLEADING; False Friends; Mental Attitudes; Changed Tone; Approval and Disapproval; Extension and Restriction; Compliments?; Weakening. From Factual to EvaluativeFrom Praise to Doubt; New Words of Praise; Loss of Etymological Sense; Degeneracy; Good Sense, Bad Sense; Ambiguity; Hesitation; Words in Changed Contexts; Specialisation; Mistaken Identity; Adjectives in Changed Contexts; Misleading Verbs; Changed Adverbial Usage; EPILOGUE; APPENDIX: A Note on Eighteenth-Century Periodicals; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX OF WORDS AND TOPICS; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; INDEX OF PERSONS; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.
• Publisher Details: London New York : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2013
• Copyright Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (337 pages)
• Subjects: 428.1; English language -- 18th century; Lexicology; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- General; English language; Lexicology; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781472512673; 1472512677
• Related ISBNs: 9781472506887
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 08, 2014).
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