Race and the Rise of Standard American /

Race and the Rise of Standard American / / Thomas Paul Bonfiglio.

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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 - es...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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Bonfiglio, Thomas Paul,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2010]
©2002
Year of Publication:2010
Edition:Reprint 2010
Language:English
Series:Language, Power and Social Process [LPSP] , 7
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Physical Description:1 online resource (258 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • I-X
  • 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

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