Good English without Idiom or Tone

The Colonial Origins of American Speech

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4010170
AutoresPaul K Longmore (Paul K. Longmore is Professor of History, San Francisco State University. He is the author of Why I Burned My Book and Other Essays on Disability (Philadelphia, 2003); ““They ... speak better English than the English do”: Colonialism and the Origins of National Linguistic Standardization in America,” Early American Literature, XL (2005), 279–314., autor de correspondencia)
Año2007
Volumen37
Número4
Páginas513-542
Fecha de publicación2007-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Journal of Interdisciplinary History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0022-1953 • E-ISSN: 1530-9169
EditorialMIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1162/jinh.2007.37.4.513
OpenAlexW2021245657
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas46

The interplay between modes of speech and the demographical, geographical, social, and political history of Britain's North American colonies of settlement influenced the linguistic evolution of colonial English speech. By the early to mid-eighteenth century, regional varieties of English emerged that were not only regionally comprehensible but perceived by many observers as homogeneous in contrast to the deep dialectical differences in Britain. Many commentators also declared that Anglophone colonial speech matched metropolitan standard English. As a result, British colonials in North America possessed a national language well before they became "Americans." This shared manner of speech inadvertently helped to prepare them for independent American nation-hood

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