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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... Variation and Change. Lesley Milroy is currently Professor Emerita, University of Michigan, USA, and a Fellow of the Faculty of Linguistics and Philology, University of Oxford, UK. She is co-author of Sociolinguistics: Method and ...
... Variation . 4. Communicative competence . 5. Language and languages - Ability testing . I. Milroy , Lesley . II . Title . P368.M54 2012 428 - dc23 2011038085 ISBN : 978-0-415–69682–1 ( hbk ) ISBN : 978-0-415–69683–8 ( pbk ) ISBN : 978-0 ...
... variation and communicative competence as we have discussed them in earlier chapters. The first two chapters are concerned with the relation of prescription to standardisation of language, and to mechanisms by which standardisation is ...
... variation in speech. Chapter 5 looks more closely at the social stratification of language that results partly from standardisation. Chapters 6 and 7 extend the discussion to communicative competence, arguing that the language abilities ...
... variation according to dialect and occasion of use. In addition, they often do not allow for the application of conversational rules such as ellipsis. Thus, if a child is shown a picture of a horse jumping over a fence and asked what ...
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 | |