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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... We have also found it necessary to point out the wide capacity of ordinary individuals who use language appropriately in a variety of different circumstances – their communicative competence. Finally, we look at some of the practical ...
... we have attempted to exclude prior ideological commitment – i.e. our approach has not been developed within any particular socio- political theoretical paradigm. The book is the joint work of both authors. The main drafts of Chapters 1 ...
... We have attempted to give a flavour of the heightened level of public feeling aroused by issues of language standardisation and prescription in an extensive revision of chapters 2 and 8. Debate on language issues has been equally fierce ...
... we have rejected this task as inadvisable, preferring to add a new chapter which reflects our recent thinking on the nature and implications of standard language ideologies. New bibliographical references which appear in this Foreword ...
... we have not at any point addressed the wide range of Englishes spoken as first, second and auxiliary languages in the contemporary world. But such a situation offers exciting research potential, and we therefore conclude this Foreword ...
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 | |