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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jane Kamensky |
| ISBN: | 0195090802 9780195090802 |
| OCLC Number: | 36647857 |
| Description: | 291 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | The Sweetest Meat, the Bitterest Poison -- A Most Unquiet Hiding Place -- The Misgovernment of Woman's Tongue -- "Publick Fathers" and Cursing Sons -- Saying and Unsaying -- The Tongue Is a Witch -- Litigation over Speech in Massachusetts, 1630-1692. |
| Responsibility: | Jane Kamensky. |
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Abstract:
Governing the Tongue explains why the spoken word assumed such importance in the culture of early New England. Author Jane Kamensky re-examines such famous events as the Salem witch trials and the banishment of Anne Hutchinson - as well as the little-known words of unsung individuals - to expose the ever-present fear of what the Puritans called "sins of the tongue." But if New Englanders despised some kinds of speech, they cherished others. While they were enjoined to "govern" their tongues in daily life, laypeople were also told to lift up their voices "like a trumpet" when speaking to or of God.
By placing speech at the heart of New England's early history, Kamensky develops new ideas about the relationship between language and power both in that place and time and, by extension, in our world today.
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- English language -- Political aspects -- New England.
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- English language -- Dialects -- New England.
- Puritans -- New England -- Language.
- Language and culture -- New England.
- Oral communication -- New England.
- English language -- 18th century.
- English language -- New England.
- Americanisms -- New England.
- New England -- Languages.
- English language -- 18th century -- History.
- English language -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History.
- New England -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
- Anglais (Langue) -- Aspect politique -- Nouvelle-Angleterre.
- Anglais (Langue) -- 1500-1700 (Moderne) -- Histoire.
- Anglais (Langue) -- Aspect religieux -- Christianisme.
- Anglais (Langue) -- Anglais parlé -- Nouvelle-Angleterre.
- Langage et culture -- Nouvelle-Angleterre -- Histoire.
- Communication orale -- Nouvelle-Angleterre -- Histoire.
- Anglais (Langue) -- 18e siècle -- Histoire.
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- Culturele aspecten.
- Puriteinen.
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