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
... English and the complaint tradition 3 Spoken and 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 ...
... English in formal contexts, rather than Latin or French. At the same time, several distinguishable varieties of ... spoken as first, second and auxiliary languages in the contemporary world. But such a situation offers exciting research ...
... English usages, such as double negatives, as in He never said nothing, are viewed as unacceptable although they are very widely used; some varieties of a language (e.g. BBC spoken English) are publicly considered to be 'better' than ...
Investigating Standard English James Milroy, Lesley Milroy. language ... English. This question is further discussed in Chapters 5 and 9. A second ... spoken norms (see further, Chapters 3, 4 and 8 below). We have argued that ...
... English language teaching is John Honey (1983, 1997). He has named an array ... spoken vernaculars have grammars of their own. To investigate the structure ... English actually is and appreciate more exactly what its roles and functions ...
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 | |