Translingual inheritance : language diversity in early national Philadelphia /
Elizabeth Kimball.
- 1 online resource.
- Composition, literacy, and culture .
Includes bibliographies and index.
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
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Multilingualism--History--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--18th century. Languages in contact--History--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--18th century. Language and culture--History--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--18th century. English language--Variation--History--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--18th century. Intercultural communication--History--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--18th century.