Bücher von Richard Hoggart

For years Richard Hoggart has observed the oddity of a common speech habit: the fondness for employing ready-made sayings and phrasings whenever we open our mouths, a disinclination to form our own sentences "from scratch," unless that becomes inescapable

This pioneering work examines changes in the life and values of the English working class in response to mass media

This pioneering work examines changes in the life and values of the English working class in response to mass media

This is an exploration of how the English, and particularly working-class English, use the English language. It asks: how far do the British share the same sayings across the social classes? And if each group uses some different ones, are those differences determined by various factors?