English with an Accent
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In 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:focuses on language variation linked to geography and social identitylooks at how the media and the entertainment industry work to promote linguistic stereotypingexamines how employers discriminate on the basis of accentreveals how the judicial system protects the status quo and reinforces language subordinationThis fascinating and highly readable book forces us to acknowledge the ways in which language is used to discriminate.
List of figuresList of tablesPrefaceAcknowledgementsPermissionsPt. ILinguistics, language, and ideologyIntroduction: Language ideology: science fiction?31The linguistic facts of life72The myth of non-accent413The standard language myth534Language ideology and the language subordination model63Pt. IIWhat we sow: institutionalized language ideologyIntroduction: Language subordination at work775Teaching children how to discriminate: what we learn from the Big Bad Wolf796The educational system: fixing the message in stone1047The information industry: selling America to Americans1338Language ideology in the workplace and the judicial system152Pt. IIIWhat we reap: consent manufacturedIntroduction: Our naked skins1739The real trouble with Black English17610Hillbillies, rednecks, and southern belles: the language rebels20211The stranger within the gates217Conclusions: Civil (dis)obedience and the shadow of language240Notes244Bibliography258Index278
