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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... accepted but unanalysed 'common sense' attitudes to correctness. We also noted that the linguistic debate was differently focused but equally fierce in the United States, where at that time we lived and worked. We therefore added to the ...
... accepted by the public as quite reasonable and are not questioned . A person who speaks English perfectly effectively , but who has occasional usages that are said to be ' substandard ' ( e.g. omitting initial [ h ] in words like happy ...
... accepted rather than the form they use themselves. Some sociolinguists (Labov, 1966; Trudgill, 1974) have made use of 'Speaker- Report Tests' in order to estimate the reliability of speakers' claims about their own usage. Some speakers ...
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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 | |