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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... such as France and Italy, academies exist which prescribe 'correct' use of the language concerned. In this book, it is our intention to examine such prescriptive judgments about language and the consequences of such judgments in society ...
... such as Truss's , and the assumptions underlying them that there exists a uniquely correct form of the language , are the subject matter of Authority in Language . More recently , Deborah Cameron's review of Henry Hitchings's book The ...
... such as World Englishes and English Worldwide; numerous excellent scholarly works (e.g. Crystal 2003; Facchinetti, Crystal and Seidlhofer 2010; Kachru, Kachru and Nelson 2009; Mesthrie, Rakesh and Bhatt 2008; Seidlhofer 2011). Somewhat ...
... such as dress or table manners. If, in a particular culture at a particular time, guests at a dinner are required to wear evening dress (of a particular form) and required to use their knives and forks in a particular way, these ...
... ( such as [ h ] -dropping ) , and that they are therefore condemning a very large proportion of the population . Furthermore , those who do use so - called ' unacceptable ' grammar and pronunciation generally belong to the lower social ...
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 | |