Title Race and the rise of standard American / by Thomas Paul Bonfiglio

Published Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (258 pages) : illustrations Series Language, power, and social process ; 7 Language, power, and social process ; 7. Contents 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 Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-254) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject English language -- United States -- Standardization English language -- Social aspects -- United States English language -- Variation -- United States Language and culture -- United States Social classes -- United States Linguistics -- United States LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Sociolinguistics. English language -- Social aspects English language -- Standardization English language -- Variation Ethnic relations Language and culture Linguistics Race relations Social classes Standardsprache Aussprache Ethnische Identität Ethnolinguistik Amerikaans. Uitspraak (taalkunde) Standaardtaal. Rassenverhoudingen. Anglais (langue) -- États-Unis -- Normalisation. Anglais (langue) -- États-Unis -- Aspect social. Anglais (langue) -- États-Unis -- Variation linguistique. SUBJECT United States -- Ethnic relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140043 United States -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140494 Subject United States Amerikanisches Englisch. Form Electronic book ISBN 9783110851991 3110851997

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