Routledge Library Editions: The English Language: Cockney Past And Present: A Short History Of The Dialect Of London (volume 5)

Although Cockney can be considered to be one of the most important non-standard forms of English, there had been little to no scholarly attention on the dialect prior to William Matthews’s 1938 volume __Cockney Past and Present__. Matthews traced the course of the speech of London from the sixteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century by gathering information from many sources including plays, novels, music-hall songs, the comments of critics and the speech and recollections of living Cockneys. This book will be of interest to students of language and linguistics. Cover 1 Half Title 2 Title 4 Copyright 5 Original Title 6 Original Copyright 7 Contents 8 PREFACE 12 I SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES 20 II EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURIES 44 III PRESENT-DAY COCKNEY 81 IV COCKNEY IN THE MUSIC-HALL 101 V MANNERISMS AND SLANG 124 VI PRONUNCIATION AND GRAMMAR 175 VII THE INFLUENCE OF COCKNEY ON STANDARD ENGLISH 220 BIBLIOGRAPHY 252 INDEX 256