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

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Race and the Rise of Standard American

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Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Year
2010
ISBN
9783110851991
Edition
1
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
Subtopic
Linguistics
Index
Languages & Linguistics

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