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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... problems in such spheres as the educational system, we hope that this book will help to extend the debate. We are grateful to the following friends and colleagues for comments and criticisms on an earlier draft of the book. We ...
... 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, involving a ...
... problems in the educational domain. This was because in Britain (particularly in England) debate on the teaching of Standard English had become extremely acrimonious and politicised, and was particularly salient during the 1990s. This ...
... problems in social and educational matters that can be affected by prescriptive attitudes to language. Two of these are particularly discussed in this book. The first concerns the education of minorities in Britain and the United States ...
... problems , more important , than the poetry of Homer , or the prose of Cicero . ( 1861 : 23 ) Before this time , Richard Chenevix Trench ( 1851 ) ( who later became an archbishop ) had proclaimed that language had its own ' life ...
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 | |