Canadian Views of American English
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8729485 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Neil C Hultin (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1967 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 243-243 |
| Publication date | 1967-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Speech (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-1283 • E-ISSN: 1527-2133 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/452988 |
| OpenAlex | W2328538447 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
ANADIAN ATTITUDES toward American English reflected in popular press of English Canada (essentially Ontario) from mid-nineteenth century until shortly after First World War vary considerably with social and political climate and, not least of all, with degree of Loyalism in author or editor. These views are generally result of political rather than linguistic principles, and, since Canada-apart from its attachment to Crown-has from its inception had to resist economic and cultural influences of United States, it is not surprising that her statements on American speech are most commonly hostile. The degree of hostility alters, however, with changes in political scene. Thus, The Canadian Magazine of Politics, Science, Art and Literature, adamantly opposed to Americanisms, published in 1901 an essay on Our Fighting Vocabulary which appeared to be appreciative of American slang. The author, F. Blake Crofton, remarked that Americans have contributed largely to common store of striking expressions'--the pun was, I am afraid, intentional. It must be observed that Crofton is not entirely laudatory of American expressions, for while American words come from their roughs and the New York rowdy, similar expressions are from more civilized Canadian youths. The difference between rowdy and angry youth reflects a common conception of United States as 'a rough, crude society' as compared with Canada. The reason for slight degree of response to American slang here is explainable by politics of day: During and for a short time after Boer War, Canadian press tended to glorify all things Anglo-Saxon-even things as tangentially Anglo-Saxon as American English.2
Linguistics · Sociology · Canadian Identity and History · Lexicography and Language Studies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · History · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,13 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2012 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |