...present moment, and establish a national language, as well as a national government." Webster felt that "Great Britain, whose children we are, and whose language we speak, should no longer be our standard." He did not contend that the United States should invent some entirely new tongue for herself, but rather...

...nation [he declares], our honor requires us to have a system of our own, in language as well as in government. Great Britain, whose children we are and...her writers is already corrupted, and her language is on the decline. . . . The English is the common root or stock from which our national language will...

...nation," he said in Dissertations on the English Language (1789), "our honor requires us to have a system of our own, in language as well as government. Great...already corrupted, and her language on the decline."'' Webster's views, though put into practice by Barlow in The Columbiad, were by no means universal. The...

...an independent nation, our honor requires us to have a system of our own, in language as well as in Government. Great Britain, whose children we are,...language we speak, should no longer be our standard..." When you listen to this, it's striking how much it echoes the doctrines of linguistic nationalism proclaimed...

...Indians over the past fifty years. As an independent nation, our honour requires us to have a system of our own, in language as well as government. Great...her writers is already corrupted, and her language is on the decline. But if it were not so, she is at too great a distance to be our model, and to instruct...

...non-American language and literature. As Noah Webster put it in 1789: "Our honor requires us to have a system of our own, in language as well as government. Great Britain, whose children we are, 1. R. Kent Newmyer, "Charles Stedman's History of the American War," American Historical Review 63...

...wrote in his Dissertations on the English Language (1789), "our honor requires us to have a system of our own, in language as well as government. Great...already corrupted, and her language on the decline." ostentatious attempt to return to what the offending speakers imagine is the original, or foreign,...

...independence in his Dissertations on the English Language (1789) admitted the very dependence it would deny: "Great Britain, whose children we are, and whose language...already corrupted, and her language on the decline." Longfellow approached this genealogical predicament no less as a linguist, indeed with a genius for...

...Unabhängigkeit bedeuten müsse (1789, 20): As an independent nation, our honour requires to have a system of our own, in language as well as government. Great...language we speak, should no longer be our standard [...] Obwohl sich seine Einstellung in vierzig Jahren aktiver Sprachplanung mäßigte (im Vorwort seines...

...ranks with an exogenous standard: 'As an independent nation our honour requires us to have a system of our own, in language as well as government. Great...language we speak, should no longer be our standard.' In any case, the American colonies lacked a single centre of linguistic prestige. Even though the major...