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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... situation in their account of the mixed , multiethnic variety , which has emerged as a consequence of post - war migration patterns to London . So although the targets of linguistic complaints vary in accordance with historical ...
... situation offers exciting research potential, and we therefore conclude this Foreword with some comments on the global character of contemporary English. It has been observed that speakers of English as a second language greatly exceed ...
... situations (for further discussion of this, see Chapter 5). A major task of sociolinguistics is to explain why linguistic differences that are essentially arbitrary are assigned social values. Another associated task is to explain why ...
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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 | |