RACE AND THE RISE OF STANDARD AMERICAN

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NEW PUBLICATION FROM MOUTON DE GRUYTER

New Publication from Mouton de Gruyter!!!!

>From the series
LANGUAGE, POWER, AND SOCIAL PROGRESS (LPSP)

Series Editors Monica Heller, Richard J. Watts


Thomas Paul Bonfiglio
RACE AND THE RISE OF STANDARD AMERICAN

2002. 23 x 15,5 cm. vii, 258 pages

Cloth. =E2=82=AC 88.00 / sFr 141,- / *US$ 79.95
ISBN 3-11-017189-9

Paperback. =E2=82=AC29.95 / sFr 48,- / *US$ 29.95
ISBN 3-11-017190-2

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(Language, Power and Social Process 7)


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.

"... this is an excellent book, well researched and written and full of
substance. It will be an excellent resource for students interested in
language ideology generally, and in the history and development of American
ideology in particular."
(Lesley Milroy, University of Michigan)


>From the contents

I. The Legitimation of Accent
1. Power, Pronunciation, and the Symbolic
2. Standard Ideology
3. The Story of R
4. Heartland Rules

II. Pronunciations of Race
1. Saxons and Swarthy Swedes: Race and Alterity in Benjamin Franklin
2. From Noah to Noah: Webster's Ideology of Race and Language
3. Class and Race in the Nineteenth Century
4. Boston's Last Stand: The Prescriptions of Henry James
5. Of Tides and Tongues: Race, Language, and Immigration
6. Teutonic Struggles: Mencken and Matthews
7. Vizetelly and the Birth of Network Standard

III. Occident, Orient, and Alien
1. Harvard Looks West
2. The Resonances of the Post-Frontier
3. Splitting the Apple: Schizoglossia in New York



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