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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... social mobility is blocked and may , for example , be refused access to certain types of employment without any ... social groups ; therefore , such attitudes to language can be interpreted as a kind of social- class discrimination , and ...
... social and educational matters that can be affected by prescriptive attitudes to language. Two of these are particularly discussed in this book. The first concerns the education of minorities in Britain and the United States, both being ...
... social psychologists (Giles et al., 1974, 1975) lends some support to Hudson's point, we do not, in fact, know whether standard languages can be conclusively shown to have no purely linguistic characteristics that differentiate them ...
... social issues), as encouraging a neglect of standard English teaching in schools. This is an entirely false claim. It is true that there has been some opposition to the teaching of English grammar, but in our experience this has arisen ...
... social context . Bloomfield ( 1933 ) , as we saw above , considered that prescription was irrelevant to linguistics as a ' science ' . Yet some linguists have been directly interested in prescription . Haas ( 1982 ) , for example , has ...
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 | |