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Loading... The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren (New York Review Books Classics)by Iona Archibald Opie
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Makes you think about the lore and language of professionals.  muir | Nov 27, 2007 |  Fascinating collection of all those rhymes, tricks, games, superstitions, etc. from childhood. Mainly written in the 1950s, this is the updated 1980s edition with a new introduction. Very interesting to see the regional and chronological variations e.g. what do you say to get temporary respite from a game? Vainites? Fainites? Cruces? Kings? (  ) eccentrica | Aug 23, 2006 | Fascinating to see how persistent children's lore is, and to see where your own recollections of childhood fit in the pattern. A classic. ( ) lizw | Jan 1, 2006 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0940322692, Paperback)First published in 1959, Iona and Peter Opie's The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren is a pathbreaking work of scholarship that is also a splendid and enduring work of literature. Going outside the nursery, with its assortment of parent-approved entertainments, to observe and investigate the day-to-day creative intelligence and activities of children, the Opies bring to life the rites and rhymes, jokes and jeers, laws, games, and secret spells of what has been called "the greatest of savage tribes, and the only one which shows no signs of dying out."(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:08 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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