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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... on 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 ...
... on the design and scoring of language assessment procedures, and that such procedures are often inadequate. Our critique of such procedures is based on the facts of language variation and communicative competence as we have discussed ...
... on the manuscript of this book during her tenure of the Senior Simon Fellowship in 1982–3. The support of colleagues in the Department of General Linguistics, University of Manchester, during this period, is also much appreciated. We ...
... on the side of teachers and have themselves regularly been targeted for criticism on the grounds that they are hostile to the principle that Standard English should be taught in schools. Rather than attempting a radically updated ...
... on the social world, at both individual and institutional levels, of such widely shared perspectives on language. In the third edition, we radically updated our comments on the relevance of these perspectives to perceived language ...
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 | |