The Language of the Meat Trade: A Survey of Terms Used by a Selected Sample of Butchers in the United Kingdom

Description

Ph.D. thesis containing seven chapters and three appendices, presenting the findings of an enquiry into the technical lexicon of the meat trade of the United Kingdom which was carried out between 1973 and 1977. The Introduction is followed by chapters on methodology, the questionnaires used, questionnaire answers relating to beef, lamb and pork, miscellaneous meat-trade notions, back-slang and other slang terms. The appendices contain a list of meat-cut terms submitted by viewers to the BBC's Pebble Mill at One television programme in 1975, meat-cutting charts for the year 1793, and a copy of the collector's letter sent to potential informants. Numbered diagrams of beef, lamb and pork carcasses, used to elicit information from informants, are included at the end of the thesis.

Metadata

Identifier gzyjydyq
IRN 409920
Class Mark LAVC/SRP/1/024
Level File
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/gzyjydyq
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Postgraduate Theses and Dissertations
Creator(s) Upton, Clive Stanley
Date 1977
Size and Medium x, 437 bound typed leaves.

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