English With an Accent,9780415114769

English With an Accent

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ISBN13: 9780415114769
ISBN10: 0415114764
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1997-07-01
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary

Scrutinizing American attitudes toward language,English With an Accentexposes the way in which language is used to maintain and perpetuate social structures and unequal power relations. Rosina Lippi-Green explores language prescription and discrimination in a variety of contexts in today's society. She examines situations from the judicial system, the media and corporate America, including such instances as court cases that attempt to exclude persons with accents from teaching young children. In the process she reveals how the media works to promote linguistic stereotyping, how employers discriminate on the basis of language use and how the judicial system uses language to protect the status quo.

Table of Contents

List of figures
xi
List of tables
xiii
Preface xiv
Acknowledgements xvi
Permissions xviii
Part I Linguistics, language, and ideology
Introduction: Language ideology: science fiction?
3(4)
The linguistic facts of life
7(34)
The myth of non-accent
41(12)
The standard language myth
53(10)
Language idology and the language subordination model
63(16)
Part II What we sow: institutionalized language ideology
Introduction: Language subordination at work
77(2)
Teaching children how to discriminate: what we learn from the Big Bad Wolf
79(25)
The educational system: fixing the message in stone
104(29)
The information industry: selling America to Americans
133(19)
Language ideology in the workplace and the judicial system
152(24)
Part III What we reap: consent manufactured
Introduction: Our naked skins
173(3)
The real trouble with Black English
176(26)
Hillbillies, rednecks, and southern belles: the language rebels
202(15)
The stranger within the gates
217(27)
Conclusions: Civil (dis)obedience and the shadow of language
240(4)
Notes 244(14)
Bibliography 258(20)
Index 278

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