Overview

The contributors to this book believe that language is a broadly-based means of communication with contested and consensual meanings, that such meanings must be revealed and evaluated by precise historical contextualization of language with proper attention to establish rules of historical method, and that we must rethink the connections between the linguistic and the social. The book aims to move beyond the unproductive fragmentation and relativism, the narrow textual range, and the literal and anti-realist readings of the postmodern ""linguistic-turn"", to offer a rigorous approach to the study of languages and the subject of history.

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Author:   John Belchem ,  Neville Kirk
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Ashgate Publishing Limited
Edition:   New edition
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781859284285

ISBN 10:   1859284280
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   14 August 1997
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction, John Belchem and Neville Kirk; Part One: Theory: Postmodernism as theory and history, Richard Price; Language and contestation: the case of ’the People’, 1832 to the present, Eileen Janes Yeo; Part Two: Gender: Fractured universality: the language of British socialism before the First World War, Karen Hunt; ’A bit of mellifluous phraseology’: the 1922 railroad shopcraft strike and the living wage, Susan Levine; Part Three: Community and workplace: ’An accent exceedingly rare’: scouse and the inflexion of class, John Belchem; Workplace gossip: management myths in further education, Melanie Tebbutt; Part Four: Labour movements: A new language for labour? W. Jett Lauck and the American version of social democracy, Leon Fink; Political identities in the West Virginia and South Wales coalfields, 1900-1922, Roger Fagge; Index.

Reviews

'This book is an interesting addition to a growing volume of literature which provides a salutary rebuttal of postmodernist academic imperialism.' Labour History Review, Vol. 64, No. 1 '...this collection demonstrates that labour history should not be seen as trapped in a time warp of 'old fashioned' concerns...the authors...build on a long-standing interest in language and identity, pioneered by historians such as E. P. Thompson, and to develop this further by re-thinking the complex relationship between discourse, culture, political identities and socio-economic structures...Urban economic and social historians, as well as labour historians, should find plenty to interest them in this book...' Urban History, Vol. 26, No. 2

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