Authority in Language: Investigating Standard EnglishRoutledge, 2012 M03 12 - 208 pages Authority in Language explores the perennially topical and controversial notion of correct and incorrect language. James and Lesley Milroy cover the long-running debate over the teaching of Standard English in Britain and compare the language ideologies in Britain and the USA, involving a discussion of the English-Only movement and the Ebonics controversy. They consider the historical process of standardisation and its social consequences, in particular discrimination against low-status and ethnic minority groups on the basis of their language traits. This Routledge Linguistics Classic is here reissued with a new foreword and a new afterword in which the authors broaden their earlier concept of language ideology. Authority in Language is indispensable reading for educationalists, teachers and linguists and a long-standing text for courses in sociolinguistics, modern English grammar, history of English and language ideology. |
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... Chapter 2 we give special attention to a linguistic complaint tradition in English. This tradition, which has taken ... chapters. The first two chapters are concerned with the relation of prescription to standardisation of language, and ...
... Chapter 5 looks more closely at the social stratification of language that results partly from standardisation. Chapters 6 and 7 extend the discussion to communicative competence, arguing that the language abilities of speakers need to ...
... Chapter 9 where somewhat different British and American language ideologies are related to national histories and social and political ideologies. In this chapter, we also relate issues of prescription and standardisation to the ...
... (V)E Received Pronunciation Standard English Non-standard English Black English Vernacular African American (Vernacular) English FOREWORD TO THE FOURTH EDITION A completely new tenth chapter Key to symbols and abbreviations used in the text.
... chapter appears as an Afterword in this fourth edition of Authority in Language, while the remaining chapters remain unchanged. The book was first published in 1985, with second and third editions appearing in 1991 and 1999. In this ...
Contents
Standard English and the complaint tradition | |
Spoken and written norms | |
Grammar and speech | |
Linguistic prescription and the speech community | |
Linguistic repertoires and communicative competence | |
Planned and unplanned speech events | |
educational issues | |
the standard language ideology | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |