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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... 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 ...
... Group , an informa business © 1985 , 1991 , 1999 , 2012 James Milroy and Lesley Milroy The right of James Milroy and Lesley Milroy to be identified as authors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with sections 77 and 78 ...
... group of linguistic anthropologists and sociolinguists associated with the Universities of Chicago and Michigan. Over the years, we have enjoyed illuminating discussions with many members of that group, but most particularly Bruce ...
... groups ; therefore , such attitudes to language can be interpreted as a kind of social- class discrimination , and it may be that political power favouring certain élite groups is exercised in part through these shibboleths . Although ...
... group : I'll see yous tomorrow will , however , be preferred when two or more persons in the company are addressed . This appears to be a useful resource in these non - standard dialects ( even though the standard speaker can ...
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 | |