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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... of Michigan, USA, and a Fellow of the Faculty of Linguistics and Philology, University of Oxford, UK. She is co-author of Sociolinguistics: Method and Interpretation. AUTHORITY IN LANGUAGE Investigating Standard English Fourth edition James ...
... of English and that in some countries, such as France and Italy, academies exist which prescribe 'correct' use of the language concerned. In this book, it is our intention to examine such prescriptive judgments about language and the ...
... of language problems in such spheres as the education and speech therapy services. In the intervening years in Britain, debate on the teaching of English, particularly Standard English, has become particularly fierce and politicised ...
Investigating Standard English James Milroy, Lesley Milroy. frequenters of coffee houses' (p. 28) are of little relevance now – the complaint tradition, with its ... of the issues raised in Authority in Language to contemporary Englishes.
... Language. Prescription. and. its. Consequences. In this book we attempt to look dispassionately at prescription in language and the ... of related phenomena , such as normalisation and standardisation of language Prescription and ...
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 | |