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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... relatively little account of language as a social phenomenon. Some of Bloomfield's followers have gone further than this and have attacked 'unscientific' approaches to language with missionary zeal. C. C. Fries (1957) seems to have ...
... relative question that cannot be adequately tested. However, experts in linguistics have sometimes been blamed for the decline in grammar teaching (and the supposed decline in literacy). In the UK, one vehement critic of the supposed ...
... relatively abstract : in practice , many of the most influential thinkers in linguistics have been concerned with this abstract ' language system ' . They have been more interested in trying to explain the universal human ability to ...
... relative pronoun , as in the house what I saw , is neither more nor less efficient in terms of language system than to use SE the house that I saw or the house which I saw ( see discussion in 3.4 , 3.5 ) . It is simply that some ...
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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 | |