Governing the TongueGoverning the Tongue explains why the spoken word assumed such importance in the culture of early New England. In a work that is at once historical, socio cultural, and linguistic, Jane Kamensky explores the little known words of unsung individuals, and reconsiders such famous Puritan events as the banishment of Anne Hutchinson and the Salem witch trials, to expose the ever present fear of what the Puritans called sins of the tongue. But even while