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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... dialect described by Fox . Furthermore , Cheshire et al . ( 2011 ) document a much more interesting situation in their account of the mixed , multiethnic variety , which has emerged as a consequence of post - war migration patterns to ...
... 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 with it since the eighteenth ...
... dialect). Indeed, some languages are thought to be in some senses 'better' than others: it has often been claimed, for example, that French is more logical than English. Language, as we have suggested, is a much more complex phenomenon ...
... dialect and occasion of use. In addition, they often do not allow for the application of conversational rules such as ellipsis. Thus, if a child is shown a picture of a horse jumping over a fence and asked what the horse is doing, he ...
... Dialects which have never produced any literature at all ... are as important , nay for the solution of some of our problems , more important , than the poetry of Homer , or the prose of Cicero . ( 1861 : 23 ) Before this time , Richard ...
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 | |