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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Investigating Standard English James Milroy, Lesley Milroy. AUTHORITY. IN. LANGUAGE. 'The Milroys' Authority in Language is the most significant textual milestone in researching the ideological construction of Standard English. An absolute ...
... Standard English and the consequences of this in eighteenth- century prescriptivism. We also attempt to consider the mechanisms by which the notion of a standard language has been maintained, and in Chapter 2 we give special attention ...
... 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 ...
Investigating Standard English James Milroy, Lesley Milroy. KEY TO SYMBOLS AND ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE TEXT ... Standard English Non-standard English Black English Vernacular African American (Vernacular) English FOREWORD TO THE FOURTH ...
Investigating Standard English James Milroy, Lesley Milroy. frequenters of coffee houses' (p. 28) are of little relevance now – the complaint tradition, with its underlying assumptions, is as prominent as ever. It appears that the ...
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 | |