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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lippi-Green, Rosina.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Social aspects--United States.

English language.

English language--Social aspects.

Speech and social status.

United States.

English language--Political aspects--United States.

English language--Political aspects.

English language--Variation--United States.

English language--Variation.

Speech and social status--United States.

Language and culture--United States.

Language and culture.

Language policy--United States.

Language policy.

Discrimination--United States.

Discrimination.

Physical Description:

xvii, 286 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.

Summary:

In this bestselling textbook, Rosina Lippi-Green scrutinizes American attitudes towards language. Using examples drawn from a variety of contexts: the classroom, the court, the media and corporate culture, she exposes the way in which discrimination based on accent functions to support and perpetuate social structures and unequal power relations. English with an Accent: focuses on language variation linked to geography and social identitylooks at how the media and the entertainment industry work to promote linguistic stereotypingexamines how employers discriminate on the basis of accentreveals how the judicial system protects the status quo and reinforces language subordination -- This fascinating and highly readable book forces us to acknowledge the ways in which language is used to discriminate.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [258]-277) and index.

ISBN:

0415114764

0415114772

OCLC:

35145942