Ebook: Multilingual Subjects: On Standard English, Its Speakers, and Others in the Long Eighteenth Century
Author: Daniel DeWispelare
- Genre: Linguistics
- Tags: English language Political aspects English-speaking countries Social aspects Sociolinguistics Standardization
- Year: 2017
- Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
- City: English-speaking countries., Great Britain.
- Language: English
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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. Read more...