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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... in Language is the most significant textual milestone in researching the ideological construction of Standard English. An absolute must for both historical linguists ... IN LANGUAGE Investigating Standard English Fourth edition James Milroy.
... to language use, and we relate prescriptive attitudes to the phenomenon of language standardisation. This entails a consideration of the historical development of Standard English and the consequences of this in eighteenth- century ...
... 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 language that results ...
... in Language, while the remaining chapters remain unchanged. The book was first published in 1985, with second and ... in Language explores the perennial topic of correctness in language. We argue that complaints by politicians ...
... language , are the subject matter of Authority in Language . More recently , Deborah Cameron's review of Henry Hitchings's book The Language Wars ( 2011 ) was deemed worthy of a half - page spread in the weekend edition of the quality ...
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 | |