Nice White Anglophones - Power, Privilege and Monolingualism

Nice White Anglophones: Privilege, Power and Monolingualism is an innovative work exploring race, power and ideology via an extended fictional case study centring a monolingual white American family-"The Smiths".

List of contents

Introduction;1: A Fly on the Smith's Wall: Doing language and doing culture; 2. What the Smiths Know, Do and Imagine: The everyday life of Nice White Anglophones; 3. On the Town with Mr. and Mrs. Smith: Power, privilege and the languacultural work of Others; 4. Around the World with the Smiths: Banal globalization, languacultural commodification and Anglophonism; 5. The Smiths Go to School: Learning Anglophone hegemony; Conclusion: Languaculture, Freedom and Futurity; Key Terms

About the author

Eric Louis Russell is Professor of French and Italian at UC Davis, USA.

Product details

• Authors: Eric Louis Russell
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 22.09.2025
• EAN: 9781032996837
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3299683-7
• No. of pages: 152
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; English, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Sociolinguistics, Language: history & general works, United States of America, USA, Language: history and general works, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity