Kimball, Elizabeth (Professor of English),

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.


Electronic Books.

P115 / .T736 2021