Race and the Rise of Standard American

Nachdruck 2010
ISBN: 978-3-11-181033-1
Verlag: De Gruyter

Medienkombination, Englisch, Band 7, 258 Seiten, Gewicht: 750 g

Reihe: Language, Power and Social Process [LPSP]

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bonfiglio, Thomas Paul

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Dialektologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sprachsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien

Über Autor(innen)

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