Title:
English with an accent : language, ideology and discrimination in the United States / Rosina Lippi-Green.
Author:
Lippi-Green, Rosina.
General Notes:
Bibliography : p. [336]-341 and index.
Language ideology or science fiction? -- The linguistic facts of life -- Language in motion -- The myth of non-accent -- The standard language myth -- Language subordination -- The educational system : fixing the message in stone -- Teaching children how to discriminate : (what we learn from the Big Bad Wolf) -- The information industry -- Real people with a real language : the workplace and the judicial system -- The real trouble with black language -- Hillbillies, hicks, and Southern belles : the language rebels -- Defying paradise : Hawai'i -- The other in the mirror -- ئYa basta! -- The unassimilable races : what it means to be Asian -- Case study 1 : moral panic in Oakland -- Case study 2 : linguistic profiling and fair housing -- Civil (dis)obedience and the shadow of language.
Publisher:
Routledge,
Publication Place:
London ; New York :
ISBN:
9780415559119 (pbk.)
Subject:
English language -- Social aspects -- United States.
English language -- Political aspects -- United States.
English language -- Variation -- United States.
Speech and social status -- United States.
Language and culture -- United States.
Language policy -- United States.
Discrimination -- United States.
Edition:
2nd ed.
Contents:
Language ideology or science fiction? -- The linguistic facts of life -- Language in motion -- The myth of non-accent -- The standard language myth -- Language subordination -- The educational system : fixing the message in stone -- Teaching children how to discriminate : (what we learn from the Big Bad Wolf) -- The information industry -- Real people with a real language : the workplace and the judicial system -- The real trouble with black language -- Hillbillies, hicks, and Southern belles : the language rebels -- Defying paradise : Hawai'i -- The other in the mirror -- ئYa basta! -- The unassimilable races : what it means to be Asian -- Case study 1 : moral panic in Oakland -- Case study 2 : linguistic profiling and fair housing -- Civil (dis)obedience and the shadow of language.
Physical Description:
xxii, 354 p. : ill., maps ;
Publication Date:
2012.
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