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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457726603321

Autore

Lippi-Green Rosina

Titolo

English with an accent : language, ideology, and discrimination in the United States / / Rosina Lippi-Green

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-136-59730-1

0-203-34880-X

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (375 p.)

Disciplina

306.440973

Soggetti

English language - Social aspects - United States

English language - Political aspects - United States

English language - Variation - United States

Speech and social status - United States

Language and culture - United States

Language policy - United States

Discrimination - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; English with an Accent; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: language ideology or science fiction?; 1. The linguistic facts of life; All spoken language changes; All spoken languages are equal in linguistic terms; Grammaticality does not equal communicative effectiveness; Written language and spoken language are historically, structurally, and functionally fundamentally different creatures; Variation is intrinsic to all spoken language at every level; Discussion questions and exercises; Notes

Suggested further reading2. Language in motion; Changes in progress; r-less in Manhattan; The Northern Cities Chain Shift (NCCS); Lexical variation; Variation in verb morphology: strong and weak verbs; Structured variation: the hidden life of language; Discussion questions and exercises; Notes; Suggested further reading; 3. The myth of non-accent; You've got one too; Perspective; The Sound House; Discussion



questions and exercises; Notes; Suggested further reading; 4. The standard language myth; Standard (American) English; Words about words; Discussion questions and exercises; Notes

Suggested further reading5. Language subordination; A model of the language subordination process; Rejecting the gift: the individual's role in the communicative process; Discussion questions and exercises; Notes; Suggested further reading; 6. The educational system: fixing the message in stone; The setting of goals; Appropriacy arguments; The results of appropriacy argumentation; Good enough English; Teacher talk; Summary; Discussion questions and exercises; Notes; Suggested further reading; 7. Teaching children how to discriminate: (what we learn from the Big Bad Wolf); Storytellers, Inc.

The ubiquitous mouseThe wolf's backstory; Talking the talk; Time and place; Disney feature films; Original study methodology; Getting the hang of Technicolor; Lovers and mothers; In short; Discussion questions and exercises; Notes; Suggested further reading; 8. The information industry; The voice of authority; Opinion, spin, propaganda; Bad is stronger than good; The 2008 presidential election; Discussion questions and exercises; Notes; Suggested further reading; 9. Real people with a real language: the workplace and the judicial system; The nutshell; The Civil Rights Act; The legal process

Discrimination in the workplaceSelected court cases; Appendix: the U.S. civil court structure; Discussion questions and exercises; Notes; Suggested further reading; 10. The real trouble with Black language; Grammar: resistance is futile; Style, authenticity, and race; Defying the definition; Anglo attitudes toward AAVE; African American attitudes toward AAVE; Where we at; Discussion questions and exercises; Notes; Suggested further reading; 11. Hillbillies, hicks, and Southern belles: the language rebels; Defining the South; The Southern Trough; Sounds like home to me; The map in the mind

Hostility with a smile

Sommario/riassunto

Since its initial publication, English with an Accent has provoked debate and controversy within classrooms through its in-depth scrutiny of American attitudes towards language. Rosina Lippi-Green discusses the ways in which discrimination based on accent functions to support and perpetuate social structures and unequal power relations. This second edition has been reorganized and revised to include: new dedicated chapters on Latino English and Asian American English discussion questions, further reading, and suggested class



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910404144903321

Autore

Jackson Mark

Titolo

Balancing the self : medicine, politics and the regulation of health in the twentieth century / / edited by Mark Jackson and Martin Moore

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2020

©2020

ISBN

1-5261-3214-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (304 pages) : illustrations; digital file(s)

Collana

Social Histories of Medicine

Disciplina

362.1964620094109045

Soggetti

Medical policy - Great Britain - History - 20th century

Medical care - Great Britain - History - 20th century

Self-care, Health - Great Britain

History Of Medicine

MEDICAL / History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

Concepts of ‘balance’ have been central to modern politics, medicine and society. Yet, while many health, environmental and social challenges are discussed globally in terms of imbalances in biological, social and ecological systems, strategies for addressing modern excesses and deficiencies have focused almost exclusively on the agency of the individual. Balancing the Self explores the diverse ways in which balanced and unbalanced selfhoods have been subject to construction, intervention and challenge across the long twentieth century. Through original chapters on subjects as varied as obesity control, fatigue and the regulation of work, and the physiology of exploration in extreme conditions, the volume analyses how concepts of balance and rhetorics of empowerment and responsibility have historically been used for a variety of purposes, by a diversity of political and social agencies. Historicising present-day concerns, as well as uncovering the previously hidden interests of the past, this volume’s wide-ranging discussions of health governance, subjectivity and balance will be of interest to historians of medicine, sociologists,



social policy analysts, and social and political historians alike.

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Record Nr.

UNIORUON00233325

Autore

SPEVACK, Marvin

Titolo

A complete and systematic concordance to the works of Shakespeare. Vol. 2 : Drama and character concordances to the Folio histories ; Concordances to the non-dramatic works / by Marvin Spevack

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hildesheim, : Georg Olms Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1968

Descrizione fisica

1388 p. ; 30 cm.

Disciplina

822.33

Soggetti

SHAKESPEARE WILLIAM OPERE CONCORDANZE

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia