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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... example, the distinction between speech and writing and between 'grammaticality' and 'acceptability' in language use). We have also found it necessary to point out the wide capacity of ordinary individuals who use language appropriately ...
... example , Lynn Truss's book Eats , Shoots and Leaves ( 2003 ) achieved best - seller status for some years . Its subtitle proclaimed it to be ' The zero tolerance approach to punctuation ' . Intemperately expressed complaints against ...
... example, the fork is transferred to the right hand for eating, whereas in Britain, the fork remains in the left hand and the knife in the right. One could actually think of a variety of perfectly efficient ways – besides these – in ...
... example , be refused access to certain types of employment without any official admission that the refusals depend partly or wholly on his or her use of language . This point is quite clearly understood by the writer of the following ...
... example, lexicographers (dictionary-makers) attempt to remove all traces of value-judgment from their work and refuse to label particular usages (such as ain't) as 'colloquial' and others as 'slang', there is likely to be a public ...
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 | |