Historical Sociolinguistics and Native American Studies: Prospects and Perspectives
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.13136/2281-4582/2017.i9.236Abstract
English historical linguistics has changed considerably over the last twenty years: not only has it devoted more attention to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but it has also developed new approaches to historical pragmatics and historical sociolinguistics by taking into consideration such genres as diaries, correspondence and schoolbooks. Within this framework, Native American studies can be shown to have great potential to contribute useful interdisciplinary takes on the investigation of Late Modern times; in particular, innovative insights and findings may derive from such connections in the study of vocabulary, of teaching materials, and of cultural representations.
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Lepore, Jill. “Wigwam Words.” American Scholar 70.1 (2001): 97-108.
Lossing, Benson J. “Our Barbarian Brethren.” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine 40.240 (May 1870): 793-811.
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Poster, Carol, and Linda C. Mitchell, eds. Letter-writing Manuals and Instruction from Antiquity to the Present: Historical and Bibliographic Studies. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2007.
Putnam, Lara. “The Transnational and the Text-Searchable: Digitized Sources and the Shadows They Cast.” The American Historical Review 121.2 (2016): 377-402.
Rosso, Stefano. “The Winning of the Western: Early Dissemination of a Literary Genre.” Knowledge Dissemination in the Long Nineteenth Century. European and Transatlantic Perspectives. Eds. Marina Dossena and Stefano Rosso. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2016. 27-44.
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Sorensen, Janet. The Grammar of Empire in Eighteenth-Century British Writing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid and Wim van der Wurff, eds. Current Issues in Late Modern English. Bern: Peter Lang, 2009.
Watts, Richard J. Language Myths and the History of English. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Webster, Noah. An American Dictionary of the English Language. New York: Published by S. Converse, 1828.
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