ISBN:
9780812293999
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
1 online resource (345 pages)
Paralleltitel:
DeWispelare, Daniel Multilingual subjects
Paralleltitel:
Print version DeWispelare, Daniel Multilingual Subjects : On Standard English, Its Speakers, and Others in the Long Eighteenth Century
DDC:
306.44221
Schlagwort(e):
English language--Political aspects--English-speaking countries--History--18th century
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English language Political aspects
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Great Britain
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History
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18thcentury
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English language Social aspects
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English-speaking countries
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History
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18th century
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English language Variation
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English-speaking countries
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History
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18th century
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English language Political aspects
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English-speaking countries
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History
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18th century
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Electronic books
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English language
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Language policy
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Multilingualism
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Sociolinguistics
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Englisch
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Standardisierung
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Soziolinguistik
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Englisches Sprachgebiet
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Geschichte 1700-1800
Kurzfassung:
Daniel DeWispelare documents how many varieties of English became sidelined as "dialects" as Standard English became dominant throughout an ever-expanding English-speaking world, while asserting the importance of both multilingualism and dialect writing to eighteenth-century anglophone culture.
Kurzfassung:
Cover -- Contents -- Introduction. Multiplicity and Relation: Toward an Anglophone Eighteenth Century -- MULTILINGUAL LIVES: Peros, Jack, Neptune, and Cupid -- Chapter 1. The Multilingualism of the Other: Politics, Counterpolitics, Anglophony, and Beyond -- MULTILINGUAL LIVES: Reverend Lyons -- Chapter 2. De Copia: Language, Politics, and Aesthetics -- MULTILINGUAL LIVES: Dorothy Pentreath and William Bodener -- Chapter 3. De Libertate: Anglophony and the Idea of "Free" Translation -- MULTILINGUAL LIVES: Joseph Emin -- Chapter 4. Literacy Fictions: Making Linguistic Difference Legible -- MULTILINGUAL LIVES: Antera Duke -- Chapter 5. The "Alien Wealth" of "Lucky Contaminations": Freedom, Labor, and Translation -- MULTILINGUAL LIVES: Sequoyah -- Conclusion. Anglophone Futures: Globalization and Divination, Language and the Humanities -- Appendix A. Selected "Dialect" Prose -- Appendix B. Selected "Dialect" Poetry -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Acknowledgments.
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