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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... 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 ...
... debate. We are grateful to the following friends and colleagues for comments and criticisms on an earlier draft of the book. We appreciate their help, while of course taking full responsibility for the version which now appears in print ...
... debate on the teaching of English, particularly Standard English, has become particularly fierce and politicised, involving a good deal of acrimony between teachers and politicians over the contents of and thinking behind a reformed ...
... debate on the teaching of Standard English had become extremely acrimonious and politicised, and was particularly salient during the 1990s. This debate focused on the desirability or otherwise of a centralised English language ...
Investigating Standard English James Milroy, Lesley Milroy. debate is no longer current in the form described in Chapter 9 , the issues therein are still prominent in American public life , and the very different character of British and ...
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 | |