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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... grammar, but in our experience this has arisen mainly from the preference of lecturers for literature teaching. Far from discouraging 'grammar', university linguists have been closely involved in maintaining and encouraging its teaching ...
... - standard dialects : they confine their claims about superiority to aspects of standard English grammar ( such as the shall / will distinction ) . It can be suggested therefore, that their real concerns are not wholly linguistic but.
... grammar (as they commonly did in other circumstances): in Latin the verb 'to differ' takes the dative case after it, and this is translated into English as to or for. A third variant, different than (which is particularly common in ...
... grammar (e.g. 'never use a preposition at the end of a sentence'), language guardians have also used arguments based on logic or mathematics and on etymology. Thus, a mathematical argument ('two negatives make a positive') was used in ...
... grammar , phonology and word - choice , their detailed recommendations go largely unheeded . In what follows , we shall make some distinctions that will go some way towards answering the question . Fundamentally , their role is related ...
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 | |