Multilingual Subjects On Standard English, Its Speakers, and Others in the Long Eighteenth Century |
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Author:
| DeWispelare, Daniel |
ISBN: | 978-0-8122-9399-9 |
Publication Date: | Apr 2017 |
Publisher: | University of Pennsylvania Press
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Book Format: | Ebook |
List Price: | USD $84.95 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.