The People's Tongue: Americans and the English Language by Ilan Stavans

The People's Tongue: Americans and the English Language

Ilan Stavans

512 pages missing pub info (editions)

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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...

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