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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... characteristic abbreviations of that genre in a welldeveloped European ludic linguistic tradition . He also reports bad - tempered and opinionated complaints about these abbreviations by prominent public figures such as John Humphrys ...
... characteristics that differentiate them from non-standard forms of language (the matter has not really been investigated). It appears to be an article of faith at the moment that judgments evaluating differences between standard and non ...
... characteristic of which is the suppression of optional variability (see 1.4, below). Apart from analogical arguments and arguments based on Latin grammar (e.g. 'never use a preposition at the end of a sentence'), language guardians have ...
... characteristic like [h]-dropping has not always been stigmatised in all languages and dialects when it is so strongly stigmatised in present-day British English and dialects. In the Romance languages, for example, [h]-dropping cannot ...
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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 | |