Autore
Sturiale, Massimo

Titolo
18th- and 19th-Century Theatre and the Standard Language Ideology: Actors as Elocutionists
Periodico
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Anno: 2022 - Fascicolo: 1 - Pagina iniziale: 59 - Pagina finale: 73

As pointed out by Mugglestone (2003), among others, accent started to be a British obsession in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries when the market for ‘proper speech’ flourished not only in the UK but also in the USA (see, for example, Algeo 2001; Beal 2004a; Hickey 2010). Together with orthoepists and elocutionists, actors were perceived as good models of ‘correct pronunciation’ which was a guarantee of reliability and success (Goring 2005; 2014). This paper argues that their experience on the stage favoured their profession as elocutionists. The qualitative analysis of the prefatorial materials of 18th-and 19th-century elocutionary manuals will show that actors/orthoepists had a primary role in the construction of the standard accent ideology and also in the making of American linguistic independence.



SICI: 1824-3967(2022)1<59:1A1TAT>2.0.ZU;2-L
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