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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... 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 ...
... discussion to communicative competence, arguing that the language abilities of speakers need to be defined in terms of their capacity to use a number of styles and varieties appropriately; prescription, however, is characteristically ...
... discussion of language problems in such spheres as the education and speech therapy services. In the intervening years in Britain, debate on the teaching of English, particularly Standard English, has become particularly fierce and ...
... discussions in earlier editions which are now relevant to our main argument in somewhat different ways than at the time ... discussion of the debate in Chapters 2 and 8 is still highly relevant. It exemplifies particularly clearly the ...
... discussions of ( and on ) the internet . Fox ( 2011 ) provides a further highly topical example of a linguistic complaint in her discussion of the comments of the historian and broadcaster David Starkey on contemporary London English ...
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 | |