Vernacular Grammar(s) of Mid-Nineteenth Century Northwestern South Carolina: A Study of Civil War LettersThe book discusses the grammar(s) of selected Civil War soldiers hailing from three counties in Northwestern South Carolina. It is in two parts, of which the first constitutes the theoretical background; the second presents the results of an analysis of the compiled corpus. Both parts comprise three chapters and are linked by Chapter Four. Chapter One places Northwestern South Carolina within the linguistic landscape of the American South.
The world's foremost expert on the English language takes us on an entertaining and eye-opening tour of the history of our vernacular through the ages. In The Story of English in 100 Words, an entertaining history of the world’s most ubiquitous language, David Crystal draws on one hundred words that best illustrate the huge variety of sources, influences and events that have helped to shape our vernacular since the first definitively English word—‘roe’—was written down on the femur of a roe deer in the fifth century.
Vernacular Bodies - The Politics of Reproduction in Early Modern England
Making babies was a mysterious process in seventeenth-century England. Fissell uses popular sources - songs, jokes, witchcraft pamphlets, prayerbooks, popular medical manuals - to recover how ordinary men and women understood the processes of reproduction. Because the human body was so often used as a metaphor for social relations, the grand events of high politics such as the English Civil War reshaped popular ideas about conception and pregnancy. This book is the first account of ordinary people's ideas about reproduction, and offers a new way to understand how common folk experienced the sweeping political changes that characterized early modern England.
This book is a photo montage of the heritage of tinkering and building without restrictions from codes, rules, and with a freedom that is classically american at it's roots. This is a great look into the vernacular architecture which is cultivated by builders using what they have available. Both Academically intriguing and heartwarming.
Language in the Inner City: Studies in the Black English Vernacular
Language in the Inner City firmly establishes African American Vernacular English not simply as slang but as a well-formed set of rules of pronunciation and grammar capable of conveying complex logic and reasoning...
