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sounds & furies (ebook)-jonathon green-9781472141910

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In terms of a non-fiction account of how historical and contemporary language has been shaped by women, I really recommend lexicographer Jonathon Greens Sounds and FuriesELEY WILIAMS, author of The Liars DictionaryWhen it comes to distaff dirtiness, mainstream males such as Dickens and Dekker make easy pickings, but Green finds the greatest treasures when he mudlarks on the margins. In Sounds & Furies, he has dredged up some gems.EMMA BYRNE, SpectatorFrom fishwives to flappers and from music hall performers to Mumsnetters, women have indeed made contributions to the slang vocabulary of English; by bringing together so much fascinating material about their words and their worlds, this book makes its own contribution to the history of both women and language.PROFESSOR DEBORAH CAMERON, Professor of Language and Communication, Worcester College, University of OxfordGreen comprehensively disproves that slang is inherently masculine. Mumsnetters and bulldaggers, flappers and slappers, shicksters and hash-slingers all put in their claims as slang-users in their own right in this entertaining and thought-provoking book. Any writer venturing into the contentious area of women as users, creators or objects of slang from now on will look to Green for guidance or for arguments.JULIE COLEMAN, author of The Life of SlangSlang. The ultimate in man-made languages. The male gaze made verbal. A world where words for intercourse mean man hits woman, the penis is a gun, a knife or club and the vagina a terrifying tunnel. Possibly with teeth. Two thousand words for woman and every one a put-down. Even mother is simply short for the grossest of obscenities.Thus the story, now and for several hundred years. But stories are just that and perhaps theres an alternative.In this book Jonathon Green, the leading collector of English-language slang and drawing on forty years of research in the field, asks whether women have another role to play. As slangs active, positive, rebellious subject, rather than its endlessly derided, submissive object.Sounds & Furies represents a quest to overturn a long-established, but far from invulnerable belief system. To show that throughout a recorded history that starts with Chaucers bawdy, mouthy and magnificently self-willed Wife of Bath and carries on through a cast of working girls and villainesses, playwrights and bestselling authors, shop-girls and fish-wives and through to the modern, on-line worlds of Mumsnet and Tinder, women have always made slang their own.If slang has always been the language of the margins, then women, for all their numbers, have also been consigned to the margins. Those days, it is ever more clear, are over. If slang has a role then it is to represent us at our most human. That may not mean admirable but it surely means true. And humanity is on offer to everyone, whatever gender they may claim. That goes for language, whatever its variety, too.From the foreword by sex historian Kate Lister:Patriarchal cultures have understood women, controlled women, and marginalised women. But, this book also reveals that it is the rebellious women who used slang: the fishwives, the scolds, the whores, and the harridans. Long may they continue to do so.

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