Lost Words and Lost Worlds

Reflects how the dramatic transformations of Stockholm in late 1800s resulted in elements of the language being lost.

Zusammenfassung
Alan Pred reconstructs the dramatic 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.

Inhalt

List of plates; List of figures; Forewording and forewarning fragments; List of abbreviations; 1. Pretext(s): lost words as reflections of lost worlds; 2. A diversity of tongues: the practiced languages of Stockholm, 1880 1900; 3. Mundane mouthings about things, tasks, and tactics: lost wor(l)ds of production, distribution, and consumption; 4. Footing about the city, or getting around the streets and ideological domination: lost wor(l)ds of spatial orientation and popular geography; 5. Finger-pointing at the Other and speaking I to eye: lost wor(l)ds of social reference and address; 6. The world of the docks and the docker in the world; Last words on lost worlds; Notes; Index.