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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... stigmatised (Ryan, 1979). Presumably they could not persist if the relevant speakers felt strongly enough that they 'ought' to learn and use forms of higher prestige (on this see Chapter 3.1). Second, it seems to be virtually impossible ...
... that in the wider community there is some agreement that certain usages (phonological, grammatical and lexical) are stigmatised, whereas others carry prestige. The histories of languages appear to contain many instances of.
... stigmatised in all languages and dialects when it is so strongly stigmatised in present-day British English and dialects. In the Romance languages, for example, [h]-dropping cannot possibly have been stigmatised by all speakers in all ...
... stigmatisation of particular forms have not normally made the necessary distinctions between system and use , or between ... stigmatised have become favoured . Indeed , it often happens that a particular usage is not attacked as non ...
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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 | |