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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... written norms 4 Grammar and speech 5 Linguistic prescription and the speech community 6 Linguistic repertoires and communicative competence 7 'Planned' and 'unplanned' speech events 8 Some practical implications of prescriptivism ...
... writing and the tendency of prescriptive statements to be based purely on written language, taking little account of variation in speech. Chapter 5 looks more closely at the social stratification of language that results partly from ...
... written. We also draw attention to a major topic which in the intervening years has become much more prominent and would now require some expansion were we to attempt an update of the entire text. For reasons which will become apparent ...
... written norms (which are resistant to ellipsis) with spoken norms (see further, Chapters 3, 4 and 8 below). We have argued that prescriptive attitudes have far-reaching consequences including the two already mentioned, and these ...
... language system than to use SE the house that I saw or the house which I saw ... language systems do not make these distinctions clearly . Furthermore , they ... written styles than on speech . Their recommendations may often be sensible ...
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 | |