03262cam a2200337 4500 892914083 TxAuBib 20230718120000.0 ||||||s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781632062666 1632062666 B0BVRLRXDL Amazon 8ff4a61a-b034-4aa6-91dd-9a657f4fe5d1 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 9635448 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Stavans, Ilan. The People's Tongue [Libby] : Americans and the English Language. Restless Books, 2023. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 4802kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Language Arts. Literary Criticism. Sociology. Nonfiction. HTML:<p><b>A riveting, one-of-a-kind anthology of the diversity, strangeness, and power of American English that features a tremendous array of letters, poems, memoir, jeremiads, stories, songs, documents, and more from Sojourner Truth and Abraham Lincoln to Henry Roth and Zora Neale Hurston, from George Carlin and James Baldwin to Richard Rodríguez and Amy Tan, from Tony Kushner and Toni Morrison to Louise Erdrich and Donald Trump.</b></p> <p>This volume is a kind of people's history of English in the United States, told by those who have transformed it: activists, teachers, immigrants, journalists, nurses, poets, astronauts, dictionary makers, actors, musicians, playwrights, preachers, Supreme Court Justices, rappers, translators, singers, children's book authors, scientists, politicians, foreigners, students, homemakers, lexicographers, scholars, newspaper columnists, TV personalities, senators, novelists, technology innovators, and a bunch of fanatics.<br /></p> <p>The quest is to understand how an imperial language like English, with Germanic origins, whose spread resulted from the Norman conquest, came to be an intrinsic component of the first and most influential democratic experiment in the world. Edited by internationally renowned cultural commentator and consultant for the OED Ilan Stavans, it is organized chronologically and offers a banquet of letters, poems, autobiographical reflections, op-eds, dictionary entries, stories, songs, legislative documents, and other evidence of verbal mutation. It addresses Ebonics, and Yinglish, Spanglish, and other linguistic concoctions, including sci-fi inventions.</p> <p>In pages in which the story is not only the what but the how, <i>The People's Tongue</i> starts with samples of the English used by the settlers in Plymouth Colony and it ends with President Donald Trump's tweets.</p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2023-07-18 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=8ff4a61a-b034-4aa6-91dd-9a657f4fe5d1&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=8ff4a61a-b034-4aa6-91dd-9a657f4fe5d1&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=8ff4a61a-b034-4aa6-91dd-9a657f4fe5d1&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)