Translingual inheritance : language diversity in early national Philadelphia / Elizabeth Kimball.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kimball, Elizabeth (Professor of English), author.

Series:

Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture.

Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Multilingualism--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--18th century.

Multilingualism.

Languages in contact--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--18th century.

Languages in contact.

Language and culture--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--18th century.

Language and culture.

English language--Variation--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--18th century.

English language.

Intercultural communication--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--18th century.

Intercultural communication.

Philadelphia (Pa.)--History--18th century--Languages.

Philadelphia (Pa.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2021]

Summary:

"Translingual Inheritance tells a new story of the early days of democracy in the United States, when English had not yet become the only dominant language. Drawing on translingual theory, which exposes how language use contrasts with the political constructions of named languages, Elizabeth Kimball argues that Philadelphians developed complex metalinguistic conceptions of what language is and how it mattered in their relations. In-depth chapters introduce the democratically active communities of Philadelphia between 1750 and 1830 and introduce the three most populous: Germans, Quakers (the Society of Friends), and African Americans. These communities had ways of knowing and using their own languages to create identities and serve the common good outside of English. They used these practices to articulate plans and pedagogies for schools, exercise their faith, and express the promise of the young democracy. Kimball draws on primary sources and archival texts that have been little seen or considered to show how citizens consciously took on the question of language and its place in building their young country and how such practice is at the root of what made democracy possible"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

1. Learning to See a Translingual Past

2. Toward a Translingual Historiography

3. Language and Education among Philadelphia Germans: The Hermeneutics of Context

4. Quakerly Genres and the Language of Liberal Learning

5. African American Language: Sameness and Difference in the Democratic Space

6. Making and Doing Language History

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780822988137

0822988135

OCLC:

1237346196