Identity, Culture & Communications In The Early Modern World

by Peter Burke

2021-01-06 04:45:33

The essays on language have been inspired by the work of sociolinguists on the ways in which the same individual may use different languages or forms of language in different situations. The essays on cities are more diverse, including violence, nois... Read more
The essays on language have been inspired by the work of sociolinguists on the ways in which the same individual may use different languages or forms of language in different situations. The essays on cities are more diverse, including violence, noise and even smells, but most of them share two themes with the essays on language. The first and most obvious theme is communication, the second is identity, since language and clothes were and are a means to place unknown individuals in their social group. Less

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File size8.65 X 6.22 X 0.84 in
Print pages224
PublisherEdward Everett Root
Publication date April 20, 2018
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781912224135
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Peter Burke is professor of cultural history at the University of Cambridge, UK. His books include What is Cultural History? and Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe....

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