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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... and language assessment procedures 9 Two nations divided by the same language?: the standard language ideology in Britain and the United States Afterword Bibliography Index PREFACE It is well known that in British and American.
... assessing popular and publicly expressed attitudes to language use, and we relate prescriptive attitudes to the ... assessment procedures, and that such procedures are often inadequate. Our critique of such procedures is based on ...
... assessment procedures. It will be clear from this brief summary that we examine practical consequences of language prescription and standardisation primarily from the perspective of recent empirical, descriptive and theoretical work in ...
... assessment. Standardised tests that are intended to estimate children's linguistic abilities are used in the educational systems of many countries, including Britain and the United States. Standardised testing procedures are also widely ...
... assessing attitudes. Despite the views of the guardians, most people do not put into effect absolute views that particular usages are 'right' or 'wrong'. The work of Labov (1966) and others has, repeatedly, demonstrated that people feel ...
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 | |