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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... complaint tradition 3 Spoken and written norms 4 Grammar and speech 5 Linguistic prescription and the speech community 6 Linguistic repertoires and communicative competence 7 'Planned' and 'unplanned' speech events 8 Some practical ...
... complaint tradition in English. This tradition, which has taken the form of complaint about so-called mis-use of language and linguistic decline, has altered little since the eighteenth century. Second, we attempt a critique of some ...
... complaints against details of usage such as Truss's , and the assumptions ... tradition . He also reports bad - tempered and opinionated complaints about ... complaint in her discussion of the comments of the historian and broadcaster ...
... traditions, with no single dialect presenting itself as a supralocal, pre- standard variety. We document over several centuries the gradual emergence of a Standard English and the modern complaint tradition which has been associated ...
... complaining about particular usages , and we shall comment later on the ' complaint tradition ' in English . Modern linguistic scholars , however , have always had good reason to assert that their discipline is fundamentally descriptive ...
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 | |