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Race and the rise of standard American / / by Thomas Paul Bonfiglio



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Autore: Bonfiglio Thomas Paul <1948-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Race and the rise of standard American / / by Thomas Paul Bonfiglio Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, 2002
Edizione: Reprint 2010
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (268 p.)
Disciplina: 306.44/0973
Soggetto topico: 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
Soggetto geografico: United States Ethnic relations
United States Race relations
Classificazione: HF 613
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
Titolo autorizzato: Race and the rise of standard american  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 3-11-085199-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910817579203321
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Serie: Language, Power and Social Process [LPSP]