Race and the rise of standard American:
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1. Verfasser: Bonfiglio, Thomas Paul 1948- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berlin Mouton de Gruyter 2002
Schriftenreihe:Language, power, and social process 7
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-254) and index
1 - The legitimation of accent - 1.1 - Power, pronunciation, and the symbolic - 1.2 - Standard ideology - 1.3 - The story of r - 1.4 - Heartland rules -- - 2 - Pronunciations of race - 2.1 - Saxons and swarthy Swedes: race and alterity in Benjamin Franklin - 2.2 - From Noah to Noah: Webster's ideology of American race and language - 2.3 - Class and race in the nineteenth century - 2.3.1 - Sounding moral in the antebellum interlude - 2.3.2 - Sounding ethnic at the century's end - 2.4 - Boston's last stand: the prescriptions of Henry James - 2.5 - Of tides and tongues: race, language, and immigration - 2.6 - Teutonic struggles: Mencken and Matthews - 2.7 - Vizetelly and the birth of network standard -- - 3 - Occident, orient, and alien - 3.1 - Harvard looks west
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
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ISBN:3110171899
3110171902
3110851997
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9783110851991

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