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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bonfiglio, Thomas Paul, 1948-

Series:

Language, Power and Social Process [LPSP]

Language, power, and social process ; 7

Language, Power and Social Process [LPSP] , 1861-4175 ; 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--United States--Standardization.

English language.

English language--Social aspects--United States.

English language--Variation--United States.

Language and culture--United States.

Language and culture.

Social classes--United States.

Social classes.

Linguistics--United States.

Linguistics.

United States--Ethnic relations.

United States.

United States--Race relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (268 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2010

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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. 2.2. 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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-254) and index.

ISBN:

9783110851991

3110851997

OCLC:

843635094