{"product_id":"translingual-inheritance-elizabeth-kimball-9780822946687","title":"Translingual Inheritance: Language Diversity in Early National Philadelphia","description":"\u003cb\u003eHonorable Mention, Rhetoric Society of America Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eTranslingual Inheritance\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Elizabeth Kimball\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0822946688\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822946687\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pittsburgh Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/16\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.00d","brand":"Elizabeth Kimball","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43983411216639,"sku":"9780822946687","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6db28ec5-5e3e-42a7-9a2e-e9f129833039.jpg?v=1683266484","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/translingual-inheritance-elizabeth-kimball-9780822946687","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}