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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... relevance to public discussion of language problems in such spheres as the education and speech therapy services. In ... relevant press cuttings. James Milroy and Lesley Milroy University of Michigan KEY TO SYMBOLS AND ABBREVIATIONS USED ...
... relevant to our main argument in somewhat different ways than at the time they were written. We also draw attention to a major topic which in the intervening years has become much more prominent and would now require some expansion were ...
... relevant to the theme of Authority in Language , the broader concerns of the work equally show no signs of becoming outdated .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 ( 2003 ) achieved best - seller status for some ...
... relevance now – the complaint tradition, with its underlying assumptions, is as prominent as ever. It appears that the central topic of Authority in Language continues to be of great interest to the general public, and of course to have ...
... relevant books on language variation have appeared ( these are discussed in later chapters ) , and linguistic correctness was the topic of the 1996 BBC Reith Lectures , delivered by Jean Aitchison . In the USA much of the interest in ...
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 | |