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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... pronunciation of given sounds. Phonemic symbols are enclosed in slant brackets, e.g. /a/; they are used to indicate contrasts in sound – thus, /a/ in bat and other words contrasts with /ε/ in bet and other words. Where phonetic and ...
... pronunciation or grammar alone , possibly justifying this opinion by arguing that these faults are signs . of ' carelessness ' , which reflect on the general character of the individual . They may not , however , be aware that a ...
... pronunciations of particular words). Thus, there may be one sense at least in which the linguistic characteristics of non-standard varieties differ from those of 'standards'. However this may be, we shall see in Chapter 4 that non ...
... pronunciations showed the greatest tendency to downgrade others for the same pronunciations. Sociolinguistic research has additionally shown that speakers certainly have knowledge of different variants (Glasgow speakers, for example ...
... pronunciations of each of a series of common words like hand, bag, stop. The first pronunciation in each case was RP ('Received Pronunciation' – the 'Oxford' or 'BBC' accent), the second was 'general Belfast' and the third 'broad ...
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 | |