Race and the Rise of Standard American formatIsbn:Hardcover - 9783110171891 Universes of Discourse

Universes of Discourse

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Race and the Rise of Standard American formatIsbn:Hardcover - 9783110171891 Universes of DiscourseThis 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