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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... formal teaching and language testing. We attempt to demonstrate that in professional contexts such as language teaching and speech therapy, prescriptive ideologies have a considerable effect on the design and scoring of language ...
... formal 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 ...
... formal grammars, it is not quite respectable to study prescription. The attitudes of linguists (professional scholars of language) have little or no effect on the general public, who continue to look to dictionaries, grammars and ...
... formal linguistics, following Chomsky (1965) etc.), we are unlikely to make great progress in understanding the nature of language if we entirely ignore its social functions and characteristics. Amongst these are phenomena such as ...
... formal properties of language than on language in its social context . Bloomfield ( 1933 ) , as we saw above , considered that prescription was irrelevant to linguistics as a ' science ' . Yet some linguists have been directly ...
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 | |