Rosina Lippi-Green
Biographic Data
| ID | 733929 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rosina Lippi-Green |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rosina |
| FAMILY NAME | Lippi-Green |
| SIGNATURE | LIPPI-GREEN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Center for Applied Linguistics |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 337 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Case study 2
In 1963, the California legislature passed the Rumford Fair Housing Act which prohibited racial discrimination in housing practices. The Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity has a website where it describes its purpose as the office that administers and enforces federal laws and establishes policies that make sure all Americans have equal access to the housing of their choice. Housing discrimination is widespread. Reasons for this fall in…
Language in motion
Salvucci synthesized all the major studies of language variation over space from 1968 to the late 1990s. More important: what is prestigious is one community may be a mark of disloyalty and highly stigmatized in the next, and thus the simplest truth about language variation: a speaker will gravitate to the variants tied to the community which is most important to him or her, despite possible negative repercussions. The fact is, some people strive…
Conclusion
Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man have come through people feeling quite certain about something which, in fact, was false. The process of language subordination targets not all variation, not all language varieties, but only those which are emblematic of differences in race, ethnicity, homeland, or other social allegiances which have been found to be less than good enough. Ideology is most effective when its workings are…
Teaching children how to discriminate
This chapter explains that ways children are systematically exposed to a standard language ideology by means of linguistic stereotypes in film or television entertainment. To maintain and increase its customer base, Disney constantly reintroduces children to their world view. Giroux suggests reasoning for pursuing the questions raised here: Questioning what Disney teaches is part of a much broader inquiry regarding what it is parents, children, e…
The linguistic facts of life
One of the most important linguistic insights of the last century was quite simple: this species-wide, universal phenomenon could not be coincidental. Noam Chomsky proposed what now seems obvious: The fact that all normal children acquire essentially comparable grammars of great complexity with remarkable rapidity suggests that human beings are somehow specially designed to do this. What linguists believe about standards matters very little; what…
The real trouble with black language 1
The features of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) that distinguish it from other varieties of American English have to do with phonology and the grammatical or syntactic structures. Green provides a detailed look at AAVE pitch range, tone, intonation and syllable structure, all contributing to the understanding of AAVE as a language with a unique rhythm. Middle-class African Americans may seldom or never use grammatical features of AAVE,…
The educational system
The majority of children in the United States are educated in state-run and financed schools, where attendance is mandatory and the curriculum goes well beyond reading and writing. Teaching is a difficult profession, a particularly challenging way to make a living, undertaken by people who are for the most part deeply dedicated and truly wish to do well for the children in their charge. A teacher is both an authority figure and a role model and a…
Hillbillies, hicks, and Southern belles
The South eagerly defines itself against the North, advertising itself as more earthy, more devoted to family values, more spiritual, and then is furious to have things turned around, to hear itself called hick, phony, and superstitious. The individual’s understanding of boundaries is something of great interest to geographers, who have studied what has been called the maps in the mind. Ayers’ body of work confirms that non-Southerners do have a …
Case study 1
Moral panics are about locating evildoers, establishing the poisonous influence and iniquity of their actions, and rectifying the damage they’ve inflicted on the rest of us. Moral panic is a key concept in sociology, media and communication studies, where it is used to describe a certain kind of group or communal behavior. In the case of pit bull panics in the US, moral entrepreneurs never talked specifically about the underlying conflict, but it…
Language subordination
The steps in the language subordination process included in the language subordination model have been compiled from an analysis of a wide range of reactions or actions of dominant bloc institutions when a threat to the authority of the homogenous language of the nation-state has been perceived. The elements in this model grew out of analysis of many kinds of public commentary on language use and language communities, but they are similar to othe…
The standard language myth
The idea of a standard language is constructed and re-constructed on an on-going basis by those who have a vested interest in the concept. At this juncture, it is necessary to consider in some detail exactly what this mythical beast called US English is supposed to be. Dennis Preston has compiled a body of empirical studies in which he has quantified and summarized non-linguists’ beliefs about the geographic distribution of a standard language. T…
The unassimilable races
The evidence establishes that the concept Asian evokes an association not with a specific nation or geographical region, but with race. In the general view of things, anyone with a particular bone structure and skin color will count as Asian. A secondary stereotype grows out of the mystification of Asia, the mysterious Orient where hard-working but simple people ply their crafts and study arcane philosophies, attaining wisdom and a spirituality s…
Real people with a real language
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) guidelines state, for example, that a business with a diverse clientele may lawfully assign work based on an employee’s ability to speak a foreign language. By demonstrating that the individual’s English language skills were insufficient to meet the employer’s needs. In terms of language-focused discrimination, Title VII has one large limitation: Under the law as it currently stands, only those l…
The myth of non-accent
In the study of myth, veracity is secondary to the way in which a story symbolizes human experience more generally. What is particularly interesting is the way that myths are used to justify social order, and to encourage or coerce consensual participation in that order. Myths are magical and powerful constructs; they can motivate social behavior and actions which would be otherwise contrary to logic or reason. Linguists have struggled to find an…
Defying paradise
In Hawai’i, racial, ethnic and socioeconomic conflicts are played out – in part – in terms of language ideology, at a level of complexity unmatched anywhere in the mainland. What follows are anonymous excerpts from discussion boards where people who live or have lived in Hawai’i for long periods talk about how they see themselves, and about the difficulty of navigating the complex relationships between ethnicity, race, class, language and privile…
The other in the mirror
When fears about the upswing in immigration began to peak in the nineteenth century, the metaphor of the melting pot became popular with journalists. A comparison of political cartoons over space indicates that regardless of the stigmatized immigrant group, whether Irish, Guatamalan or Kenyan, the imagery and discourse strategies are remarkably similar. English, held up as the symbol of the successfully assimilated immigrant, is promoted as the o…
The information industry
Media representatives claim authority in matters of language, and use that manufactured authority as a tool to coerce agreement on a wide range of public issues. A study of the various media outlets provides many examples of how representatives see themselves and want to be seen. Editorial opinions are not out of place in any kind of information media, as long as they are clearly marked as such. Every exchange of information comes with a context …
English with an Accent: Language, ideology, and discrimination in the United States
Since its initial publication, English with an Accent has provoked debate and controversy within classrooms through its in-depth scrutiny of American attitudes towards language. Rosina Lippi-Green discusses the ways in which discrimination based on accent functions to support and perpetuate social structures and unequal power relations. This second edition has been reorganized and revised to include: new dedicated chapters on Latino English and A…
Ya basta
English with an accent: Language, ideology and discrimination in the United States
Accents, Ebonics, and Crossing: Thinking about Language, Race Relations, and Discrimination
English With an Accent: Language, Ideology and Discrimination in the United States. The Real Ebonics Debate: Power, Language, and the Education of African-American Children. Crossing: Language and Ethnicity Among Adolescents
Language Ideology and Language Change in Early Modern German: A Sociolinguistic Study of the Consonantal System of Nuremberg
This quantitative study, based on a computerized corpus of texts written by five men in early 16th-century Nuremberg, employs multivariate GLM statistical procedures to analyze the way linguistic, social and stylistic factors work individually and in interaction to influence variation observed in the texts. Over 70,000 tokens of variable consonants sets were analyzed, using network analysis as an alternate approach to quantification of relevant s…
What We Talk About When We Talk About Ebonics: Why Definitions Matter
1997). What We Talk About When We Talk About Ebonics: Why Definitions Matter. The Black Scholar: Vol. 27, Ebonics II, pp. 7-11
Recent Developments in Germanic Linguistics
Accent, standard language ideology, and discriminatory pretext in the courts
Title VII of the U.S. Civil Rights Act clearly forbids an employer to discriminate against persons of color for reasons of personal or customer preference. Similarly, a qualified job applicant may not be rejected on the basis of linguistic traits linked to national origin. In contrast to racial discrimination, however, an employer has considerable latitude in matters of language, provided in part by a judicial system which recognizesin theorythe …
English with an Accent: Language, ideology, and discrimination in the United States
Since its initial publication, English with an Accent has provoked debate and controversy within classrooms through its in-depth scrutiny of American attitudes towards language. Rosina Lippi-Green discusses the ways in which discrimination based on accent functions to support and perpetuate social structures and unequal power relations. This second edition has been reorganized and revised to include: new dedicated chapters on Latino English and A…
Accent, standard language ideology, and discriminatory pretext in the courts
Title VII of the U.S. Civil Rights Act clearly forbids an employer to discriminate against persons of color for reasons of personal or customer preference. Similarly, a qualified job applicant may not be rejected on the basis of linguistic traits linked to national origin. In contrast to racial discrimination, however, an employer has considerable latitude in matters of language, provided in part by a judicial system which recognizesin theorythe …
Social network integration and language change in progress in a rural alpine village
The quantification of communication network integration can provide information valuable to the study of language change in very small rural communities. The adaptation of urban and communication network methodology for rural alpine social structures establishes a framework for the study of variation leading to change based on individual usage for the dialect of Grossdorf in Vorarlberg, Austria's western-most province. This approach is particular…
What We Talk About When We Talk About Ebonics: Why Definitions Matter
1997). What We Talk About When We Talk About Ebonics: Why Definitions Matter. The Black Scholar: Vol. 27, Ebonics II, pp. 7-11
Social network integration and language change in progress in a rural alpine village
The quantification of communication network integration can provide information valuable to the study of language change in very small rural communities. The adaptation of urban and communication network methodology for rural alpine social structures establishes a framework for the study of variation leading to change based on individual usage for the dialect of Grossdorf in Vorarlberg, Austria's western-most province. This approach is particular…
Recent Developments in Germanic Linguistics
These are selected papers from the Second Annual Michigan/Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable held in April of 1991 at Ann Arbor. Topics include the evolution of the gender system, the delineation of the relative clause in historical texts, and language as a political tool in the new Europe.
Accent, standard language ideology, and discriminatory pretext in the courts
Title VII of the U.S. Civil Rights Act clearly forbids an employer to discriminate against persons of color for reasons of personal or customer preference. Similarly, a qualified job applicant may not be rejected on the basis of linguistic traits linked to national origin. In contrast to racial discrimination, however, an employer has considerable latitude in matters of language, provided in part by a judicial system which recognizesin theorythe …
Recent Developments in Germanic Linguistics
What We Talk About When We Talk About Ebonics: Why Definitions Matter
1997). What We Talk About When We Talk About Ebonics: Why Definitions Matter. The Black Scholar: Vol. 27, Ebonics II, pp. 7-11
Language Ideology and Language Change in Early Modern German: A Sociolinguistic Study of the Consonantal System of Nuremberg
This quantitative study, based on a computerized corpus of texts written by five men in early 16th-century Nuremberg, employs multivariate GLM statistical procedures to analyze the way linguistic, social and stylistic factors work individually and in interaction to influence variation observed in the texts. Over 70,000 tokens of variable consonants sets were analyzed, using network analysis as an alternate approach to quantification of relevant s…
Accents, Ebonics, and Crossing: Thinking about Language, Race Relations, and Discrimination
English With an Accent: Language, Ideology and Discrimination in the United States. The Real Ebonics Debate: Power, Language, and the Education of African-American Children. Crossing: Language and Ethnicity Among Adolescents
English with an accent: Language, ideology and discrimination in the United States
Case study 2
In 1963, the California legislature passed the Rumford Fair Housing Act which prohibited racial discrimination in housing practices. The Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity has a website where it describes its purpose as the office that administers and enforces federal laws and establishes policies that make sure all Americans have equal access to the housing of their choice. Housing discrimination is widespread. Reasons for this fall in…
Language in motion
Salvucci synthesized all the major studies of language variation over space from 1968 to the late 1990s. More important: what is prestigious is one community may be a mark of disloyalty and highly stigmatized in the next, and thus the simplest truth about language variation: a speaker will gravitate to the variants tied to the community which is most important to him or her, despite possible negative repercussions. The fact is, some people strive…
Conclusion
Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man have come through people feeling quite certain about something which, in fact, was false. The process of language subordination targets not all variation, not all language varieties, but only those which are emblematic of differences in race, ethnicity, homeland, or other social allegiances which have been found to be less than good enough. Ideology is most effective when its workings are…
Teaching children how to discriminate
This chapter explains that ways children are systematically exposed to a standard language ideology by means of linguistic stereotypes in film or television entertainment. To maintain and increase its customer base, Disney constantly reintroduces children to their world view. Giroux suggests reasoning for pursuing the questions raised here: Questioning what Disney teaches is part of a much broader inquiry regarding what it is parents, children, e…
The linguistic facts of life
One of the most important linguistic insights of the last century was quite simple: this species-wide, universal phenomenon could not be coincidental. Noam Chomsky proposed what now seems obvious: The fact that all normal children acquire essentially comparable grammars of great complexity with remarkable rapidity suggests that human beings are somehow specially designed to do this. What linguists believe about standards matters very little; what…
The real trouble with black language 1
The features of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) that distinguish it from other varieties of American English have to do with phonology and the grammatical or syntactic structures. Green provides a detailed look at AAVE pitch range, tone, intonation and syllable structure, all contributing to the understanding of AAVE as a language with a unique rhythm. Middle-class African Americans may seldom or never use grammatical features of AAVE,…
The educational system
The majority of children in the United States are educated in state-run and financed schools, where attendance is mandatory and the curriculum goes well beyond reading and writing. Teaching is a difficult profession, a particularly challenging way to make a living, undertaken by people who are for the most part deeply dedicated and truly wish to do well for the children in their charge. A teacher is both an authority figure and a role model and a…
Hillbillies, hicks, and Southern belles
The South eagerly defines itself against the North, advertising itself as more earthy, more devoted to family values, more spiritual, and then is furious to have things turned around, to hear itself called hick, phony, and superstitious. The individual’s understanding of boundaries is something of great interest to geographers, who have studied what has been called the maps in the mind. Ayers’ body of work confirms that non-Southerners do have a …
Case study 1
Moral panics are about locating evildoers, establishing the poisonous influence and iniquity of their actions, and rectifying the damage they’ve inflicted on the rest of us. Moral panic is a key concept in sociology, media and communication studies, where it is used to describe a certain kind of group or communal behavior. In the case of pit bull panics in the US, moral entrepreneurs never talked specifically about the underlying conflict, but it…
Language subordination
The steps in the language subordination process included in the language subordination model have been compiled from an analysis of a wide range of reactions or actions of dominant bloc institutions when a threat to the authority of the homogenous language of the nation-state has been perceived. The elements in this model grew out of analysis of many kinds of public commentary on language use and language communities, but they are similar to othe…
The standard language myth
The idea of a standard language is constructed and re-constructed on an on-going basis by those who have a vested interest in the concept. At this juncture, it is necessary to consider in some detail exactly what this mythical beast called US English is supposed to be. Dennis Preston has compiled a body of empirical studies in which he has quantified and summarized non-linguists’ beliefs about the geographic distribution of a standard language. T…
The unassimilable races
The evidence establishes that the concept Asian evokes an association not with a specific nation or geographical region, but with race. In the general view of things, anyone with a particular bone structure and skin color will count as Asian. A secondary stereotype grows out of the mystification of Asia, the mysterious Orient where hard-working but simple people ply their crafts and study arcane philosophies, attaining wisdom and a spirituality s…
Real people with a real language
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) guidelines state, for example, that a business with a diverse clientele may lawfully assign work based on an employee’s ability to speak a foreign language. By demonstrating that the individual’s English language skills were insufficient to meet the employer’s needs. In terms of language-focused discrimination, Title VII has one large limitation: Under the law as it currently stands, only those l…
The myth of non-accent
In the study of myth, veracity is secondary to the way in which a story symbolizes human experience more generally. What is particularly interesting is the way that myths are used to justify social order, and to encourage or coerce consensual participation in that order. Myths are magical and powerful constructs; they can motivate social behavior and actions which would be otherwise contrary to logic or reason. Linguists have struggled to find an…
Defying paradise
In Hawai’i, racial, ethnic and socioeconomic conflicts are played out – in part – in terms of language ideology, at a level of complexity unmatched anywhere in the mainland. What follows are anonymous excerpts from discussion boards where people who live or have lived in Hawai’i for long periods talk about how they see themselves, and about the difficulty of navigating the complex relationships between ethnicity, race, class, language and privile…
The other in the mirror
When fears about the upswing in immigration began to peak in the nineteenth century, the metaphor of the melting pot became popular with journalists. A comparison of political cartoons over space indicates that regardless of the stigmatized immigrant group, whether Irish, Guatamalan or Kenyan, the imagery and discourse strategies are remarkably similar. English, held up as the symbol of the successfully assimilated immigrant, is promoted as the o…
The information industry
Media representatives claim authority in matters of language, and use that manufactured authority as a tool to coerce agreement on a wide range of public issues. A study of the various media outlets provides many examples of how representatives see themselves and want to be seen. Editorial opinions are not out of place in any kind of information media, as long as they are clearly marked as such. Every exchange of information comes with a context …
Linguistics (14 works) · Philosophy (13 works) · Computer Science (12 works) · History (9 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity (4 works) · Geography (3 works) · German (3 works)