English with an Accent: Language, Ideology, and Discrimination in the United StatesIn this bestselling textbook, Rosina Lippi-Green scrutinizes American attitudes towards language. Using examples drawn from a variety of contexts: the classroom, the court, the media and corporate culture, she exposes the way in which discrimination based on accent functions to support and perpetuate social structures and unequal power relations. English with an Accent:
This fascinating and highly readable book forces us to acknowledge the ways in which language is used to discriminate. |
Contents
Language ideology science fiction? | 3 |
3 | 18 |
7 | 36 |
The standard language myth | 53 |
Language ideology and the language subordination model | 63 |
Language subordination at work | 77 |
fixing the message in stone | 104 |
8 62 | 128 |
1 | 155 |
Our naked skins | 173 |
the language rebels | 202 |
6 | 209 |
1 | 218 |
The stranger within the gates | 221 |
Civil dis obedience and the shadow of language | 240 |
Bibliography | 258 |
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English with an Accent: Language, Ideology, and Discrimination in the United ... Rosina Lippi-Green No preview available - 1997 |
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