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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... LANGUAGE 'The Milroys' Authority in Language is the. LANGUAGE INVESTIGATING STANDARD ENGLISH ' An absolute must for both historical linguists and sociolinguists . ' Richard J. Watts JAMES MILROY AND LESLEY MILROY ROUTLEDGE. Front Cover.
... sociolinguists.' Richard J. Watts, Emeritus Professor, formerly University of Bern, Switzerland 'No book on the ... sociolinguistics, modern English grammar, history of English and language ideology. James Milroy is Emeritus Professor of ...
... sociolinguistics. As far as possible we have attempted to exclude prior ideological commitment – i.e. our approach has not been developed within any particular socio- political theoretical paradigm. The book is the joint work of both ...
... sociolinguists) have entered the fray, usually on the side of teachers and have themselves regularly been targeted for criticism on the grounds that they are hostile to the principle that Standard English should be taught in schools ...
... sociolinguistic investigators, are enclosed in round brackets, e.g. (a). Citations of spelling forms are italicised; thus, h refers to a letter and not necessarily to any corresponding sound. Abbreviations used are explained in the text ...
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 | |