03947nam 2200769Ia 450 991078947990332120230207215629.03-11-085199-710.1515/9783110851991(CKB)3460000000080983(EBL)934587(OCoLC)843635094(SSID)ssj0000560151(PQKBManifestationID)11323812(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000560151(PQKBWorkID)10571299(PQKB)11317136(MiAaPQ)EBC934587(WaSeSS)Ind00013776(DE-B1597)55860(OCoLC)979592260(DE-B1597)9783110851991(Au-PeEL)EBL934587(CaPaEBR)ebr10599410(EXLCZ)99346000000008098320020405d2002 uy 0engurnn#---|u||utxtccrRace and the rise of standard American[electronic resource] /by Thomas Paul BonfiglioReprint 2010Berlin ;New York Mouton de Gruyter20021 online resource (268 p.)Language, Power and Social Process [LPSP] ;7Description based upon print version of record.3-11-017190-2 3-11-017189-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-254) and index.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 --IndexThis 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 inLanguage, Power and Social Process [LPSP]English languageUnited StatesStandardizationEnglish languageSocial aspectsUnited StatesEnglish languageVariationUnited StatesLanguage and cultureUnited StatesSocial classesUnited StatesLinguisticsUnited StatesUnited StatesEthnic relationsUnited StatesRace relationsEnglish languageStandardization.English languageSocial aspectsEnglish languageVariationLanguage and cultureSocial classesLinguistics306.44/0973HF 613rvkBonfiglio Thomas Paul1948-175468MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910789479903321Race and the rise of standard american541974UNINA