Translingual Inheritance : Language Diversity in Early National Philadelphia

Elizabeth Kimball

ISBN 10: 0822946688 / ISBN 13: 9780822946687

Editore: University Of Pittsburgh Press Mär 2021, 2021

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• Titolo: Translingual Inheritance : Language Diversity in Early National Philadelphia
• Editore: University Of Pittsburgh Press Mär 2021
• Data di pubblicazione: 2021
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0822946688
• ISBN 13: 9780822946687
• Rilegatura: Buch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 231 L x 155 A x 25 P (millimetri) 231 millimetri di larghezza per 155 millimetri di altezza per 25 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 499 grammi

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Honorable Mention, Rhetoric Society of America Book Award

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.

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Elizabeth Kimball is assistant professor of English at Drexel University. She is co-chair of the Philadelphia Writing Program Administrators, an affiliate of the Council of Writing Program Administrators. She is also a member of Rhetoric Society of America and the Conference on College Composition and Communication. Her work involves history, memory, language, and collaborative public life.