{"product_id":"lost-words-and-lost-worlds-modernity-and-the-language-of-everyday-life-in-late-nineteenth-century-stockholm-paperback-9780521022255","title":"Lost Words and Lost Worlds; Modernity and the Language of Everyday Life in Late Nineteenth-Century Stockholm (Paperback \/ softback) 9780521022255","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eLost Words and Lost Worlds\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eModernity and the Language of Everyday Life in Late Nineteenth-Century Stockholm\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eReflects how the dramatic transformations of Stockholm in late 1800s resulted in elements of the language being lost.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAllan Pred (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521022255, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 10 November 2005\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e328 pages, 22 b\/w illus.  16 maps  3 tables\u003cbr\u003e23.4 x 15.6 x 1.7 cm, 0.471 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"...the distinctively empirical, playfully theoretical, and decidedly original work of Allan Pred deserves careful attention.  In Lost Words and Lost Worlds: Everyday Life in Late Nineteenth-century Stockholm, Pred develops an apparently esoteric topic into a finely tuned theoretical argument, using lost linguistic expressions of old Stockholm as a discursive foil against which to set a very special reading of the worlds lost to modernity.\"   Dierdre Boden, Contemporary Sociology\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe last quarter of the nineteenth century was the most dramatic era in the social and spatial transformation of Stockholm. During this time large-scale manufacturing industry rose and eclipsed small-scale artisan sectors of production; the city's population virtually doubled and there was a rapid extension and rebuilding of the urban fabric. Allan Pred reconstructs this transformation of Stockholm's local economy, civil society and built environment between 1880 and 1900 through an interpretation of lost elements of language, or forgotten fragments of daily discourse, of lost words and meanings that belonged to members of the working and periodically employed classes. His analysis reveals that a language of production, distribution and consumption practices subsumed a language of discipline-avoidance and survival tactics. He demonstrates that the 'folk geography', or language used for negotiating the city streets and getting from here to there, subsumed a language of ideological resistance; that a language of social reference and address, the tagging of nicknames on groups and individuals, subsumed a language of boundary transgression; and that these languages were cross-cut by folk humour, by a vocabulary of comic irony and irreverence.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of plates\u003cbr\u003e List of figures\u003cbr\u003e Forewording and forewarning fragments\u003cbr\u003e List of abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e 1. Pretext(s): lost words as reflections of lost worlds\u003cbr\u003e 2. A diversity of tongues: the practiced languages of Stockholm, 1880–1900\u003cbr\u003e 3. Mundane mouthings about things, tasks, and tactics: lost wor(l)ds of production, distribution, and consumption\u003cbr\u003e 4. Footing about the city, or getting around the streets and ideological domination: lost wor(l)ds of spatial orientation and popular geography\u003cbr\u003e 5. Finger-pointing at the Other and speaking I to eye: lost wor(l)ds of social reference and address\u003cbr\u003e 6. The world of the docks and the docker in the world\u003cbr\u003e Last words on lost worlds\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Human geography [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Human geography\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Human%20geography%20%5BRGC%5D%22\"\u003eRGC\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46004404781336,"sku":"9780521022255","price":35.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521022255i.jpg?v=1694963547","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/lost-words-and-lost-worlds-modernity-and-the-language-of-everyday-life-in-late-nineteenth-century-stockholm-paperback-9780521022255","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}