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English with an accent : language, ideology and discrimination in the United States / Rosina Lippi-Green.
Van Pelt Library PE2808.8 .L57 2012
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- 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:
- xxii, 354 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2012.
- Summary:
- Since its initial publication, English with an Accent has provoked debate and controversy within classrooms through its in-depth scrutiny of American attitudes towards language. Rosina Lippi-Green discusses the ways in which discrimination based on accent functions to support and perpetuate social structures and unequal power relations. This second edition has been reorganized and revised to include: -- new dedicated chapters on Latino English and Asian American English discussion questions, further reading, suggested classroom exercises, and a glossary of key termsupdated examples from the classroom, the judicial system, the media, and corporate culture a discussion of the long-term implications of the Ebonics debatea brand-new companion website with links to audio, video, and images relevant to the each chapter's content. English with an Accent is essential reading for students with interests in attitudes and discrimination towards language.
- Contents:
- Language ideology or science fiction?
- The linguistic facts of life
- Language in motion
- The myth of non-accent
- The standard language myth
- Language subordination
- The educational system : fixing the message in stone
- Teaching children how to discriminate : (what we learn from the Big Bad Wolf)
- The information industry
- Real people with a real language : the workplace and the judicial system
- The real trouble with black language
- Hillbillies, hicks, and Southern belles : the language rebels
- Defying paradise : Hawai'i
- The other in the mirror
- ¡Ya basta!
- The unassimilable races : what it means to be Asian
- Case study 1 : moral panic in Oakland
- Case study 2 : linguistic profiling and fair housing
- Civil (dis)obedience and the shadow of language.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 336-341) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780415559102
- 0415559103
- 9780415559119
- 0415559111
- 9780203348802
- 020334880X
- OCLC:
- 731009712
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