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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... verb' and 'adjective'. Fries's work was directed towards the educational system; that of Robert A. Hall, Jr. was directed at the ordinary consumer. Anxious to assure all his readers that their use of language was just as good as that of ...
... verb) is not superior to that of Gaelic (in which the verb comes first): it is merely different, and neither word-order is directly conditioned by relationship to 'the real world'. In short, if one wishes to produce accurate ...
... verb differ, which requires the particle from and not to: we say chalk differs from cheese and not *chalk differs to cheese. On the other hand, different to might be justified on the grounds that it falls into a set of words with ...
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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 | |