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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... political theoretical paradigm. The book is the joint work of both authors. The main drafts of Chapters 1–Chapters 4 were prepared by J. Milroy, and those of Chapters 5–Chapters 8 by L. Milroy. Both authors have, however, been fully ...
... politicians over the contents of and thinking behind a reformed, centralised English language curriculum. In an extensive analysis of the social and political agenda underlying the debate, Cameron (1995) notes that linguists ...
... political issue, However, given the focus of Authority in Language on the societal effect of attitudes to linguistic correctness, the discussion of the debate in Chapters 2 and 8 is still highly relevant. It exemplifies particularly ...
... political prominence in the past continue to be relevant to the theme of Authority in Language , the broader concerns of the work equally show no signs of becoming outdated . For example , Lynn Truss's book Eats , Shoots and Leaves ...
... political power favouring certain élite groups is exercised in part through these shibboleths . Although discrimination on the grounds of race , religion , gender or social class is not now publicly acceptable , it appears that ...
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 | |