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The People's Tongue

Editat de Ilan Stavans
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ISBN-13: 9781632062659
ISBN-10: 1632062658
Pagini: 512
Dimensiuni: 161 x 234 x 39 mm
Greutate: 0.86 kg
Editura: Restless Books

Notă biografică

Ilan Stavans is the publisher of Restless Books and a passionate lover of dictionaries, with a collection of over three hundred now housed in his personal collection at the University of Pennsylvania. He has published an assortment of books about language, including Spanglish: The Making of a New American Language (2003), Dictionary Days: A Defining Passion (2005), Resurrecting Hebrew (2008), and How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish (2020). He serves as a consultant to the Oxford English Dictionary and lives in Amherst, Mass.

Cuprins

Introduction: Language as Character, by Ilan Stavans
Chronology
Part I: Landing Mode
Anne Winthrop: ?Letter to Adam Winthrop? (1581)
Robert Smith: from New England Primer (1687)
John Adams: ?Proposal for an American Language Academy? (1780)
Thomas Jefferson: ?Letter to John Waldo Monticello? (1813)
Noah Webster: preface to An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)
Alexis de Tocqueville: from Democracy in America (1835)
Lydia Huntley Sigourney: ?Indian Names? (1841)
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet: from ?On the Natural Languages of Signs II? (1848)
Sojourner Truth: ?Ain't I a Woman?? (1851)
Abraham Lincoln: ?Gettysburg Address? (1863)
Bret Harte: ?The Spelling Bee at Angels? (1878)
Mark Twain: from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)
José da Fonseca and Pedro Carolino: from English as She Is Spoke (1884)
Walt Whitman: ?Slang in America? (1885)
Emily Dickinson: Poem #236 (1886)
Richard Henry Pratt: from ?Kill the Indian, Save the Man? (1892)
Simon Pokagon: ?On Naming the Indians? (1897)
Paul Laurence Dunbar: ?When Malindy Sings? (1903)
Ambrose Bierce: ?Two Definitions? (1906)
Henry James: from The American Scene (1907)
Mary Antin: from The Promised Land (1912)
William L. Harding: ?Babel Proclamation? (1918)
Theodore Roosevelt Jr.: ?The Last Message? (1919)
Part II: Fly Me to the Moon
H. L. Mencken: ?The Characters of American? (1919)
e e cummings: ?next to of course god america i? (1926)
Thomas Wolfe: ?Only the Dead Know Brooklyn? (1935)
Henry Roth: from Call It Sleep (1936)
Zora Neale Hurston: from Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)
Abel Meeropol and Billie Holiday: ?Strange Fruit? (1939)
Abbott and Costello: ?Who's on First?? (1944)
Martin Minoru Iida: ?Go for Broke? (1944)
Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz: ?Ough? (1953)
William Faulkner: from ?What's the Good Word? (1958)
Dr. Seuss: from Green Eggs and Ham (1960)
Amiri Baraka: ?Expressive Language? (1963)
Bob Dylan: ?A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall? (1963)
Dwight McDonald: from ?The String Untuned? (1963)
Leo Rosten: from The Joys of Yiddish (1968)
George Carlin: ?The Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television? (1972)
Adrienne Rich ?Transcendental Etude? (1978)
James Baldwin: ?If Black English Isn't a Language, Tell Me What Is? (1979)
Isaac Bashevis Singer: ?On Translating My Books? (1979)
Sugarhill Gang: from ?Rapper's Delight? (1979)
E. B. White: Introduction to Oliver Strunk's The Elements of Style (1979)
John Ashbery: ?Paradoxes and Oxymorons? (1980)
Russell Hoban: from Riddley Walker (1980)
Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa: ?Speech on Language Amendment? (1982)
Richard Rodríguez: ?English, Sí? (1982)
Part III: The Ruckus of Polyphony
Gloria Anzaldúa: from ?How to Tame a Wild Tongue? (1987)
Judith Ortiz Cofer: ?Homework: Define Caliente? (1987)
Julia Álvarez: ?Bilingual Sestina? (1990)
Amy Tan: ?Mother Tongue? (1990)
Tony Kushner: from Angels in America (1991)
Toni Morrison: ?Nobel Lecture? (1993)
Chang-Rae Lee: ?Mute in an English-Only World? (1996)
Jamaica Kincaid: ?In History? (1997)
Robert F. Panara: ?On His Deafness? (1997)
Bill Clinton: ?Memorandum on Plain Language in Government Writing? (1998)
Louise Erdrich: ?Two Languages in Mind, but Just One in the Heart? (2000)
Joy Harjo: ?A Map to the Next World? (2000)
María Eugenia Morales: 'Twas the Night? (2001)
David Foster Wallace: ?Tense Present: Democracy, English, and the Wars Over Usage? (2001)
Susan Sontag: ?The World as India? (2002)
Ha Jin: from The Writer as Migrant (2008)
Ammon Shea: ?The Keypad Solution? (2010)
Yusef Komunyakaa: ?English? (2011)
Peter Sokolowski: ?New Words and the Dictionary? (2012)
Jesse Sheidlower: ?The Case for Profanity in Print? (2014)
Ilan Stavans: ?In Defense of Spanglish? (2014)
Kendrick Lamar: ?DNA? (2017)
Natalie Diaz ?Manhattan is a Lenape Word? (2020)
Donald Trump: ?CNN? (2021)
Jhumpa Lahiri: ?Lingua / Language? (2022)
John McWorther: ?English as a Living Language?Period? (2022)
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