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A Vocabulary of Culture and Society

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An edition of Keywords (1976)

Keywords

A Vocabulary of Culture and Society

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Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society is a book by the Welsh Marxist academic Raymond Williams published in 1976 by Croom Helm.

Originally intended to be published along with the author's 1958 work Culture and Society, this work examines the history of more than a hundred words that are familiar and yet confusing: Art, Bureaucracy, Culture, Educated, Management, Masses, Nature, Originality, Radical, Society, Welfare, Work, and many others.

The approach is cultural rather than etymological. Sometimes the origins of a word cast light on its meaning, but often one finds that it originally meant something quite different. Or that there has been a fierce political struggle over the 'correct' meaning.

A revised and expanded edition of Keywords was published by Fontana in 1983. In 2005 Blackwell published New Keywords: A Revised Vocabulary of Culture and Society, an attempt to update Williams' text.

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Oxford University Press, USA
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English
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352

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Anglais (Langue), Sociolinguistique, Sociolingüística, English language, Woordgebruik, Etymology, Woorden, Société, Terminology, Glossaries, vocabularies, Woordbetekenis, Vocabulary, Terminologie, Sociale aspecten, Culture, Étymologie, Glossaires, vocabulaires, Sociolinguistics, Ingles (etimologia), Social structure, Society, Anthropological linguistics, Dictionaries, Social sciences, Sociologie, 2011NEWJULY, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, English language, etymology, English language, glossaries, vocabularies, etc., English language, etymology, dictionaries, Anglais (langue), 2011newjuly, Language arts & disciplines / linguistics / general, Language arts & disciplines / general, General, English & college success -> english -> linguistics, English & college success -> english -> english, 06a061ebk, 06, 06a061, 15b351ebk, 15, 15b351

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1985, Oxford University Press
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"Aesthetic first appeared in English in C19, and was not common before mC19."

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