Multilingual Subjects
Author | : Daniel DeWispelare |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2017-05-08 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780812249095 |
ISBN-13 | : 0812249097 |
Rating | : 4/5 (097 Downloads) |
Download or read book Multilingual Subjects written by Daniel DeWispelare and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-05-08 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.