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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... context. First, we consider some difficulties in assessing popular and publicly expressed attitudes to language use ... contexts such as language teaching and speech therapy, prescriptive ideologies have a considerable effect on the ...
... contexts, rather than Latin or French. At the same time, several distinguishable varieties of English in Great Britain could lay claim to strong literary traditions, with no single dialect presenting itself as a supralocal, pre ...
... context . Bloomfield ( 1933 ) , as we saw above , considered that prescription was irrelevant to linguistics as a ' science ' . Yet some linguists have been directly interested in prescription . Haas ( 1982 ) , for example , has pointed ...
... context , as his office could be ' Sam's office ' or some other male person's office . In other languages , the system may have an additional resource and may require a choice at this point between reflexive and non- reflexive . Thus ...
... context, this latter proposition is best viewed as a statement of the null hypothesis. But neither this claim nor the claim about superiority is in fact capable of satisfactory verification or falsification: the two claims are simply ...
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 | |