Authority in Language: Investigating Language Prescription and StandardisationRoutledge & K. Paul, 1985 - 189 pages |
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Page 104
... range of varieties of English is much greater than is found in the British Isles . On the one hand we can speak of an acrolect or high status variety , and on the other a basilect or low status variety , with the mesolect occupying the ...
... range of varieties of English is much greater than is found in the British Isles . On the one hand we can speak of an acrolect or high status variety , and on the other a basilect or low status variety , with the mesolect occupying the ...
Page 126
... range of styles ; most academic linguistic work on the subject is limited in one way or another . Thus , for example , the comments of Halliday , McIntosh and Strevens ( 1964 ) are not supported by systematic observation . While the ...
... range of styles ; most academic linguistic work on the subject is limited in one way or another . Thus , for example , the comments of Halliday , McIntosh and Strevens ( 1964 ) are not supported by systematic observation . While the ...
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... range of structures are available for analysis in spontaneous styles . The linguistic range of utterance types found in interviews and in those situations which have a close affinity with them , tends to be very limited indeed . In the ...
... range of structures are available for analysis in spontaneous styles . The linguistic range of utterance types found in interviews and in those situations which have a close affinity with them , tends to be very limited indeed . In the ...
Contents
Standard English and the complaint tradition | 29 |
Spoken and written norms | 54 |
Grammar and speech | 70 |
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acrolect analysis appears basilect Belfast Black English British British English Cambridge Chapter characteristics clearly cocoliche communicative competence concerned context correctness creole Crystal deletion dialect discussion distinction educational system effect eliciting English language example fact fieldworker formal forms Friulian function glottal stop grammar Gumperz h]-dropping Hiberno-English important judgments kind Labov language ability language problems language system language teaching language tests linguistic ability linguistic repertoire literacy London low status means Milroy monolingual non-standard English non-standard speakers notions Papua New Guinea phonological Pidgin prescriptive attitudes prescriptive ideologies prescriptivism pronunciation question reason Received Pronunciation relatively relevant sentence Singaporean sociolinguistic speech events spoken English spoken language spontaneous speech Standard English standard ideology standard language standardisation stigmatised structure syntactic syntax systematic teachers tessitura therapists tion Trudgill types University Press unplanned discourse usage utterances variable variation varieties verb vernacular vowels Wolfram words working-class writing written language