Lost Words and Lost Worlds: Modernity and the Language of Everyday Life in Late Nineteenth-Century Stockholm

List of plates List of figures Forewording and forewarning fragments List of abbreviations 1. Pretext(s): lost words as reflections of lost worlds 2. A diversity of tongues: the practiced languages of Stockholm, 1880-1900 3. Mundane mouthings about things, tasks, and tactics: lost wor(l)ds of production, distribution, and consumption 4. Footing about the city, or getting around the streets and ideological domination: lost wor(l)ds of spatial orientation and popular geography 5. Finger-pointing at the Other and speaking I to eye: lost wor(l)ds of social reference and address 6. The world of the docks and the docker in the world Last words on lost worlds Notes Index.