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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... structural linguists of the time), and in his book on English syntax he went so far as to even reject traditional linguistic terms such as 'noun', 'verb' and 'adjective'. Fries's work was directed towards the educational system; that of ...
... structure of language varieties is an intellectual requirement that cannot be compromised, and which in no way contradicts the importance of the teaching of literacy in a standard language. Amongst other things, research on real ...
... structural linguistics and literary structuralists for an alleged decline in language use and for permissive attitudes to language : ' What this is , masquerading under the euphemism descriptive linguistics “ ... is a benighted and ...
... structure of one language is 'superior' to that of another. The word-order of English (in which the subject precedes ... structures of different languages or dialects (e.g. by rejecting or ignoring some features that are pre-judged as ...
... structures ' of languages , implying a distinction between this ' formal structure ' and the actual use of language on particular occasions . A distinction of this kind has been basic in the work of most general linguists since de ...
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 | |