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ABSTRACT. This chapter argues that the United States has a long history of multilingual translations, which were legislated and published by state and local governments in the nineteenth century in an effort to include immigrants more fully into the politics of the nation. Using a database of state laws, this chapter examines the categories of ...
Jul 4, 2017 · By the time the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776, carefully composed in the richly-worded language of the day, did colonial Americans—who after all were British before they decided to switch to become American—really sound all that different from their counterparts in the mother country? If you believe historical reenactments ...
Oct 16, 2009 · Extract. The scope of this paper is limited to an overview of mutilingualism in the U.S. from 1980 to the present. During this period, discussions of language diversity in the U.S. have been largely dominated by an effort to exert the hegemony of English.
- Sandra Lee McKay
- 1997
As colonists and slaves populated the area, multilingualism in America increased — albeit under the growing domination of provincial American English dialects.
Apr 1, 1987 · Bilingual education has been part of the immigrant experience in America since ... Modern bilingual education got its start, however, not among Mexican-Americans or Puerto Ricans, but among a ...
Multilingual America: language and the making of American literature / Lawrence Alan Rosenwald. p. cm. – (Cambridge studies in American literature and culture; 157) Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-0-521-89686-3 (alk. paper) 1. American literature – History and criticism. 2. Multilingualism and literature – United ...
Aug 19, 2014 · Inspired by Spanish riches deriving from the ‘New World’ during the sixteenth century, the first English people to settle permanently in North America hoped for similar riches. In North America, the norm of language usage in the colonies remained that of the motherland until approximately the time of the American Revolutionary War (1775 ...
