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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... appears in print. Thanks to Kevin Connolly, Anthony Edwards, Paul Fletcher, Michael McTear, William Mittins, Katherine Perera, Don Porter and John Wilson; to our series editor Michael Stubbs we are particularly grateful for comment ...
... appears as an Afterword in this fourth edition of Authority in Language, while the remaining chapters remain ... appear in this Foreword or in the Afterword are listed separately at the end of the Bibliography. Essentially, Authority in ...
... appears that the central topic of Authority in Language continues to be of great interest to the general public, and of course to have implications for serious students of language, linguistics and linguistic anthropology. Authority in ...
... appears that discrimination on linguistic grounds is publicly acceptable , even though linguistic differences may themselves be associated with ethnic , religious and class differences ( see further J. R. Edwards , 1979 ; Hudson , 1980 ) ...
... appear to feel that, whereas it is respectable to write formal grammars, it is not quite respectable to study prescription. The attitudes of linguists (professional scholars of language) have little or no effect on the general public ...
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 | |