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Race and the rise of standard American /
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- esp...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; New York :
Mouton de Gruyter,
2002.
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| Colección: | Language, power, and social process ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. The legitimation of accent. 1.1. Power, pronunciation, and the symbolic. 1.2. Standard ideology. 1.3. The story of r. 1.4. Heartland rules
- 2. Pronunciations of race. 2.1. Saxons and swarthy Swedes: race and alterity in Benjamin Franklin. 2.2. From Noah to Noah: Webster's ideology of American race and language. 2.3. Class and race in the nineteenth century. 2.3.1. Sounding moral in the antebellum interlude. 2.3.2. Sounding ethnic at the century's end. 2.4. Boston's last stand: the prescriptions of Henry James. 2.5. Of tides and tongues: race, language, and immigration. 2.6. Teutonic struggles: Mencken and Matthews. 2.7. Vizetelly and the birth of network standard
- 3. Occident, orient, and alien. 3.1. Harvard looks west.