TY - GEN T1 - Multilingual subjects : on standard English, its speakers, and others in the long eighteenth century A1 - DeWispelare, Daniel LA - English PP - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania PB - University of Pennsylvania Press YR - 2017 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn981955691 AB - In the eighteenth century, the British Empire pursued its commercial ambitions across the globe, greatly expanding its colonial presence, and with it, the reach of the English language. During this era, a standard form of English was taught in the British provinces just as it was increasingly exported from the British Isles to colonial outposts in North America, the Caribbean, South Asia, Oceania, and West Africa. Under these conditions, a monolingual politics of Standard English came to obscure other forms of multilingual and dialect writing, forms of writing that were made to appear as inferior, provincial, or foreign oddities. Daniel DeWispelare's Multilingual Subjects at once documents how different varieties of English became sidelined as "dialects" and asserts the importance of both multilingualism and dialect writing to eighteenth-century anglophone culture. By looking at the lives of a variety of multilingual and nonstandard speakers and writers who have rarely been discussed together-individuals ranging from slaves and indentured servants to translators, rural dialect speakers, and others-DeWispelare suggests that these language practices were tremendously valuable to the development of anglophone literary aesthetics even as Standard English became dominant throughout the ever-expanding English-speaking world. OP - 336 CN - P119.3 SN - 0812293991 SN - 9780812293999 SN - 0812249097 SN - 9780812249095 KW - English language : Political aspects : English-speaking countries : History : 18th century. KW - English language : Political aspects : Great Britain : History : 18th century. KW - Multilingualism : English-speaking countries : History : 18th century. KW - English language : Social aspects : English-speaking countries : History : 18th century. KW - Sociolinguistics : English-speaking countries : History : 18th century. KW - English language : English-speaking countries : Standardization : History : 18th century. KW - English language : Variation : English-speaking countries : History : 18th century. KW - Language policy : English-speaking countries : History : 18th century. KW - Language and languages : Philosophy : History : 18th century. KW - Translating and interpreting : English-speaking countries : History : 18th century. KW - Multilinguisme : Anglophonie : Histoire : 18e siècle. KW - Sociolinguistique : Anglophonie : Histoire : 18e siècle. KW - Anglais (Langue) : Variation : Anglophonie : Histoire : 18e siècle. KW - Langage et langues : Philosophie : Histoire : 18e siècle. KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Public Policy : Cultural Policy. KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Anthropology : Cultural. KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Popular Culture. KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES : Linguistics : Historical & Comparative. KW - English language : Political aspects KW - English language : Social aspects KW - English language : Standardization KW - English language : Variation KW - Language and languages : Philosophy KW - Language policy KW - Multilingualism KW - Sociolinguistics KW - Translating and interpreting KW - English-speaking countries KW - Great Britain KW - 1700-1799 KW - History ER -