ISBN:
9783110851991
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource
Edition:
Originally published 2002
Edition:
2010
Series Statement:
Language, Power and Social Process 7
Series Statement:
Language, Power and Social Process [LPSP] 7
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. Bonfiglio, Thomas Paul Race and the rise of standard American
Keywords:
Language and culture
;
English language Social aspects
;
English language Standardization
;
English language Variation
;
English language Social aspects
;
United States
;
English language Variation
;
United States
;
English language United States
;
Standardization
;
Language and culture United States
;
Linguistics United States
;
Social classes United States
;
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
;
United States Ethnic relations
;
United States Race relations
;
Amerikanisches Englisch
;
Standardsprache
;
Aussprache
;
Ethnische Identität
;
Ethnolinguistik
Abstract:
Biographical note: Thomas Paul Bonfiglio is Associate Professor at the University of Richmond, Virginia, USA.
Abstract:
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.
DOI:
10.1515/9783110851991
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