Race and the Rise of Standard American

Thomas Paul Bonfiglio

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2002

Race and the Rise of Standard American

Thomas Paul Bonfiglio

Volume 7 in the series Language, Power and Social Process [LPSP]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110851991

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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 - 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 race, class, and gender.

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Thomas Paul Bonfiglio is Associate Professor at the University of Richmond, Virginia, USA.

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I-X Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	I
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. The legitimation of accent Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
2. Pronunciations of race. 2.1. Saxons and swarthy Swedes: race and alterity in Benjamin Franklin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
2. Pronunciations of race. 2.2. From Noah to Noah: Webster's ideology of American race and language Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
2. Pronunciations of race. 2.3. Class and race in the nineteenth century Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
2. Pronunciations of race. 2.4. Boston's last stand: the prescriptions of Henry James Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
2. Pronunciations of race. 2.5. Of tides and tongues: race, language, and immigration Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
2. Pronunciations of race. 2.6. Teutonic struggles: Mencken and Matthews Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
2. Pronunciations of race. 2.7. Vizetelly and the birth of network standard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
3. Occident, orient, and alien Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
Afterword Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Edition: Reprint 2010
Pages
- Main content: 258

eBook

Published: December 14, 2010
ISBN: 9783110851991

Hardcover

Published: June 7, 2002
ISBN: 9783110171891