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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... language : investigating standard English / James Milroy and Lesley Milroy . p . cm . - ( Routledge linguistics classics ) Previously pub .: 1985 . 1. Standard language . 2. English language - Standardization . 3. Language and languages ...
... language use, and we relate prescriptive attitudes to the phenomenon of language standardisation. This entails a consideration of the historical development of Standard English and the consequences of this in eighteenth- century ...
... English, particularly Standard English, has become particularly fierce and politicised, involving a good deal of acrimony between teachers and politicians over the contents of and thinking behind a reformed, centralised English language ...
... English had become extremely acrimonious and politicised, and was particularly salient during the 1990s. This debate focused on the desirability or otherwise of a centralised English language curriculum. Although the effects of the ...
... Language Wars ( 2011 ) was deemed worthy of a half - page spread in the weekend edition of the quality British newspaper the Guardian . Hitchings provides a readable account of complaints against English , designed for a general ...
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 | |