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. |
From inside the book
... grammar, history of English and language ideology. James Milroy is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics, University of Sheffield, UK, and Fellow of the Faculty of Linguistics and Philology, University of Oxford, UK. He is author of ...
... 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: educational issues ...
... grammar alone , possibly justifying this opinion by arguing that these faults are signs . of ' carelessness ' , which reflect on the general character of the individual . They may not , however , be aware that a majority of their ...
... grammar with prescription (which was by definition 'bad' and 'unscientific' in the view of structural linguists of the time), and in his book on English syntax he went so far as to even reject traditional linguistic terms such as 'noun ...
... grammar' in schools. Some educationalists appear to have interpreted attacks on prescriptive grammar as attacks on the teaching of grammar in general; and as university language teachers, we have become aware that some students now ...
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 | |