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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... particularly grateful for comment, advice and support, and for the idea of writing the book in the first place. To the Speech Therapists of Northern Ireland and the Speech Therapy students of the Ulster Polytechnic, with whom the ideas ...
... particularly Standard English, has become particularly fierce and politicised, involving a good deal of acrimony between teachers and politicians over the contents of and thinking behind a reformed, centralised English language ...
... (particularly in England) debate on the teaching of Standard English had become extremely acrimonious and politicised, and was particularly salient during the 1990s. This debate focused on the desirability or otherwise of a centralised ...
... particularly Bruce Mannheim, Susan Gal, Judith Irvine, Robin Queen, Michael Silverstein and Kathryn Woolard. They and the many Michicagoan graduate students with whom we have worked have greatly advanced our thinking on the nature of ...
... particularly discussed in this book. The first concerns the education of minorities in Britain and the United States, both being countries that have large ethnic minority populations whose native language may not be English. This ...
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 | |