Norman F. Blake: Shakespeare’s Non-Standard English. A Dictionary of His Informal Language (Athlone Shakespeare Dictionary Series).
Norman Blake’s contribution to English linguistics and, in particular, to the study of Shakespeare’s English has been truly impressive: his Grammar of Shakespeare’s Language (2002) is followed, after only two years, by the book to be reviewed here, his Shakespeare’s Non-Standard English. A Dictionary of His Informal Language.1 Purists may object to the equation of “non-standard” (title) with “informal” (subtitle). In his “Introduction” Blake readily admits that “the subject matter of this dictionary is more difficult to define [than that of some other volumes in the same series]” (p. 2) and he further states that the words he has included “may be categorized as falling into two broad categories: those which are or started life as non-standard [e.g. words belonging to canting language and similar varieties] and those which belong to a type that is generally non-standard or at least commonly exploited at the spoken level [e.g. phrasal verbs]” (p. 3).
Seiten 158 - 159
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.37307/j.1866-5381.2006.01.25 |
Lizenz: | ESV-Lizenz |
ISSN: | 1866-5381 |
Ausgabe / Jahr: | 1 / 2006 |
Veröffentlicht: | 2006-04-01 |