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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... the distinction between speech and writing and the tendency of prescriptive statements to be based purely on written language, taking little account of variation in speech. Chapter 5 looks more closely at the social stratification of ...
Investigating Standard English James Milroy, Lesley Milroy. PREFACE. TO. THE. THIRD. EDITION. When we compiled the second edition of this book in 1991, we commented on its relevance to public discussion of language problems in such spheres ...
Investigating Standard English James Milroy, Lesley Milroy. FOREWORD. TO. THE. FOURTH. EDITION. A completely new tenth chapter appears as an Afterword in this fourth edition of Authority in Language, while the remaining chapters remain ...
... in the past continue to be relevant to the theme of Authority in Language , the broader concerns of the work equally show no signs of becoming outdated . For example , Lynn Truss's book Eats , Shoots and Leaves ( 2003 ) achieved best - ...
... In this book we attempt to look dispassionately at prescription in language and the effects of prescriptive attitudes on the daily lives of individuals. Prescription depends on an ideology (or set of beliefs) concerning language which ...
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 | |