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 market does a better job of explaining the issues surrounding standardization and linguistic authority in a way which is both scholarly and accessible to students.' Deborah Cameron, University of Oxford, UK Authority in Language ...
... the distinction between speech and writing and the tendency of prescriptive statements to be based purely on written ... is characteristically confined to judgments on a single specific style or variety. In Chapter 8 we look more closely at ...
... a number of practical problems in social and educational matters that can be affected by prescriptive attitudes to language. Two of these are particularly discussed in this book. The first concerns the education of minorities in Britain and ...
... a fuller account of the nature of language standardisation. 1.2. Linguistics. and. Prescription. The existence of prescriptive attitudes is well known to linguistic scholars, but in 'mainstream' linguistics of recent times scholars have ...
... a whole . One example amongst many is Simon ( 1980 ) . In an essay entitled ' The Corruption of English ' ( 1980 ) , Simon blames structural linguistics and literary structuralists for an alleged decline in language use and for ...
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 | |