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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789479903321

Autore

Bonfiglio Thomas Paul <1948->

Titolo

Race and the rise of standard American [[electronic resource] /] / by Thomas Paul Bonfiglio

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, 2002

ISBN

3-11-085199-7

Edizione

[Reprint 2010]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (268 p.)

Collana

Language, Power and Social Process [LPSP] ; ; 7

Classificazione

HF 613

Disciplina

306.44/0973

Soggetti

English language - United States - Standardization

English language - Social aspects - United States

English language - Variation - United States

Language and culture - United States

Social classes - United States

Linguistics - United States

United States Ethnic relations

United States Race relations

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 (p. [241]-254) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Introduction -- 1. The legitimation of accent -- 2. Pronunciations of race. 2.1. Saxons and swarthy Swedes: race and alterity in Benjamin Franklin -- 2. Pronunciations of race. 2.1. Saxons and swarthy Swedes: race and alterity in Benjamin Franklin -- 2. Pronunciations of race. 2.2. From Noah to Noah: Webster's ideology of American race and language -- 2. Pronunciations of race. 2.3. Class and race in the nineteenth century -- 2. Pronunciations of race. 2.4. Boston's last stand: the prescriptions of Henry James -- 2. Pronunciations of race. 2.5. Of tides and tongues: race, language, and immigration -- 2. Pronunciations of race. 2.6. Teutonic struggles: Mencken and Matthews -- 2. Pronunciations of race. 2.7. Vizetelly and the birth of network standard -- 3. Occident, orient, and alien -- Conclusion -- Afterword -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This study examines the effect of race-consciousness upon the pronunciation of American English and upon the ideology of standardization in the twentieth century. It shows how the discourses



of prescriptivist pronunciation, the xenophobic reaction against immigration to the eastern metropolises- especially New York - and the closing of the western frontier together constructed an image of the American West and Midwest as the locus of proper speech and ethnicity. This study is of interest to scholars and students in linguistics, American studies, cultural studies, Jewish studies, and studies in