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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... form or electronic , mechanical , or other means , now known or hereafter invented , including photocopying and recording , or in any information storage or retrieval system , without by any permission in writing from the publishers ...
... form of complaint about so-called mis-use of language and linguistic decline, has altered little since the eighteenth ... forms of prescriptivism have lost sight of the function of prescription in maintaining the standard. Our argument ...
... forms are italicised; thus, h refers to a letter and not necessarily to any corresponding sound. Abbreviations used are explained in the text. The main ones are: RP SE NSE BEV AA(V)E Received Pronunciation Standard English Non-standard ...
... form part of a more general and continuing process of language standardisation and maintenance. We also examine the very considerable effect on the social world, at both individual and institutional levels, of such widely shared ...
... form described in Chapter 9 , the issues therein are still prominent in American public life , and the very different character of British and American language ideologies is as evident as ever . While particular events which achieved ...
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 | |