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Authority in Language

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Investigating Standard English

Authority in Language

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Authority in Language book

Investigating Standard English
ByJames Milroy, Lesley Milroy
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2012
eBook Published 1 March 2012
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203124666
Pages 208
eBook ISBN 9780203124666
Subjects Language & Literature
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Milroy, J., & Milroy, L. (2012). Authority in Language: Investigating Standard English (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203124666

ABSTRACT

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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|23 pages

Prescription and standardisation

chapter 2|23 pages

Standard English and the complaint tradition

chapter 3|13 pages

Spoken and written norms

chapter 4|17 pages

Grammar and speech

chapter 5|22 pages

Linguistic prescription and the speech community

chapter 6|17 pages

Linguistic repertoires and communicative competence

chapter 7|15 pages

‘Planned’ and ‘unplanned’ speech events

chapter 8|19 pages

Some practical implications of prescriptivism: educational issues and language assessment procedures

chapter 9|11 pages

Two nations divided by the same language?: the standard language ideology in Britain and the United States

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