Roger Williams, A Key into the Language of America (1643)
Date
1643
Author
Roger
Williams
Note: 15/10/2005
languages: native American (Narragansett)
Book title
A Key into the Language of America: Or, An help to the Language of the Natives in that part of America, called New-England. . Together, with briefe Observations of the Customes, Manners and Worships, &c. of the aforesaid Natives, in Peace and Warre, in Life and Death. On all which are added Spirituall Observations, Generall and Particular by the Authour, of chiefe and speciall use (upon all occasions,) to all the English Inhabiting those parts; yet pleasant and profitable to the view of all men
Publication place
London
Publisher
Gregory Dexter
Transcription source
EEBO/TCP transcript
Text type
printed book
Genre
Bilingual and polyglot dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies
Subject area
Algonkian
Summary
Narraganset vocabulary; "Directions for the use of the Language" (a4r-v).
Language
headwords: Narraganset
explanations: English
explanations: English
Parallel phrases, organized by chapter and topic
explanations: English
explanations: English
Parallel phrases, organized by chapter and topic
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: What cheare Nétop? is the generall salutation of all English toward them, Nétop is friend. (p. 2) Netompaüog Friends.
sample: What cheare Nétop? is the generall salutation of all English toward them, Nétop is friend. (p. 2) Netompaüog Friends.
Alston
XIV.540
Wing
W 2766
Facsimiles
Williams, Roger. A Key into the Language of America, 1643. English linguistics, 1500-1800, no. 299. Menston: Scolar Press, 1971.
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Modern editions
Williams, Roger. The Correspondence of Roger Williams. Eds. Glenn W. LaFantasie, Robert S. Cocroft, and Bradford F. Swan. 2 vols. Providence, R.I., Hanover and London: The Rhode Island Historical Society by Brown University Press and University Press of New England, 1988.
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Williams, Roger. A Key into the Language of America. Eds. John J. Teunissen and Evelyn J. Hinz. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1973. view record
Williams, Roger. A Key into the Language of America. Eds. John J. Teunissen and Evelyn J. Hinz. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1973. view record
Criticisms
Brotherston, Gordon. "A Controversial Guide to the Language of America, 1643." 1642: Literature and Power in the 17th Century: Proceedings of the Essex Conference on the Sociology of Literature. Ed. Francis Barker. Colchester: University of Essex, 1981. 84-100.
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Considine, John. "Narrative and Persuasion in Early Modern English Dictionaries and Phrasebooks." Review of English Studies 52.206 (2001 May): 195-206. view record
Cesarini, J. Patrick. "The Ambivalent Uses of Roger Williams's A Key into the Language of America." Early American Literature 38.3 (2003): 469-94. view record
Gray, Nicole. "Aurality in Print: Revisiting Roger Williams's A Key into the Language of America." PMLA 131.1 (2016 January): 64-83. view record
Wroth, Lawrence. "Variations in Five Copies of Roger Williams's Key into the Language of America ." Rhode Island Historical Society Collections 29.2 (1936): 120-21. view record
Considine, John. "Narrative and Persuasion in Early Modern English Dictionaries and Phrasebooks." Review of English Studies 52.206 (2001 May): 195-206. view record
Cesarini, J. Patrick. "The Ambivalent Uses of Roger Williams's A Key into the Language of America." Early American Literature 38.3 (2003): 469-94. view record
Gray, Nicole. "Aurality in Print: Revisiting Roger Williams's A Key into the Language of America." PMLA 131.1 (2016 January): 64-83. view record
Wroth, Lawrence. "Variations in Five Copies of Roger Williams's Key into the Language of America ." Rhode Island Historical Society Collections 29.2 (1936): 120-21. view record
Sources
- Felker, Christopher. "Roger Williams's Uses of Legal Discourse: Testing Authority in Early New England.." New England Quarterly 63.4 (1990): 624-48. view record
