Standard language ideology in the Anglophone world

Bhatt (2008: 14-15) point out, “standard English has almost come to have a life and power of its own”, with the ideology of standardisation “presenting the standard as the primordial entity from which other dialects deviate” and, in turn, having “important ramications for the status of new varieties of English that developed . . . beyond the south of England and beyond the British Isles”.