Race and the Rise of Standard American
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Race and the Rise of Standard American

  1. 258 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Race and the Rise of Standard American

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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.

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Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgements
  2. Introduction
  3. 1. The legitimation of accent
  4. 1.1. Power, pronunciation, and the symbolic
  5. 1.2. Standard ideology
  6. 1.3. The story of r
  7. 1.4. Heartland rules
  8. 2. Pronunciations of race
  9. 2.1. Saxons and swarthy Swedes: race and alterity in Benjamin Franklin
  10. 2.2. From Noah to Noah: Webster's ideology of American race and language
  11. 2.3. Class and race in the nineteenth century
  12. 2.4. Boston's last stand: the prescriptions of Henry James
  13. 2.5. Of tides and tongues: race, language, and immigration
  14. 2.6. Teutonic struggles: Mencken and Matthews
  15. 2.7. Vizetelly and the birth of network standard
  16. 3. Occident, orient, and alien
  17. 3.1. Harvard looks west
  18. 3.2. Resonances of the post-frontier
  19. 3.3. Splitting the apple: schizoglossia in New York
  20. Conclusion
  21. Afterword
  22. References
  23. Index