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Sto caricando le informazioni... A Is for American: Letters and Other Characters in the Newly United Statesdi Jill Lepore
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. 3/12/22 Thought-provoking and intelligent, as usual. Lepore does a good job illustrating the work of Noah Webster, Samuel Morse, et al. and their attitudes toward language. Sadly, she makes it clear that people's political, religious and cultural agendas meant that even well-intentioned attempts to improve communication fell way, way short; in the case of Alexander Graham Bell, for example, his efforts to suppress sign language (in favor of a visual system) meant a much more difficult time for deaf students. I finished the book with a more complicated (if sadder) picture of these linguistic episodes. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
What ties Americans to one another? What unifies a nation of citizens with different racial, religious and ethnic backgrounds? These were the dilemmas faced by Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as they sought ways to bind the newly United States together. In A is for American, award-winning historian Jill Lepore portrays seven men who turned to language to help shape a new nation’s character and boundaries. From Noah Webster’s attempts to standardize American spelling, to Alexander Graham Bell’s use of “Visible Speech” to help teach the deaf to talk, to Sequoyah’s development of a Cherokee syllabary as a means of preserving his people’s independence, these stories form a compelling portrait of a developing nation’s struggles. Lepore brilliantly explores the personalities, work, and influence of these figures, seven men driven by radically different aims and temperaments. Through these superbly told stories, she chronicles the challenges faced by a young country trying to unify its diverse people. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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