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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... should be taught in schools. Rather than attempting a radically updated analysis of this very public language debate, we refer readers to Deborah Cameron's excellent discussion. We have attempted to give a flavour of the heightened ...
... should be refused employment on the grounds of ' wrong ' 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 ...
... should be damaging , and those who claim that it is have never supplied reliable evidence for their claim . In Section 1.3 , we proceed to a discussion of descriptive and prescriptive attitudes . 1.3 Attitudes to Language As we saw in ...
... should be selected in preference to the others. In this discussion we have not been attempting to suggest that the handbook prescriptions should be overthrown and one of the 'disallowed' usages elevated to a position of correctness. We ...
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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 | |