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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778919703321

Autore

Milroy James.

Titolo

Authority in language : investigating standard English / / James Milroy and Lesley Milroy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-136-44623-0

1-136-44624-9

0-203-12466-9

Edizione

[Fourth edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (206 p.)

Collana

Routledge Linguistics Classics

Altri autori (Persone)

MilroyLesley

Disciplina

420

428

Soggetti

Communicative competence

English language -- Standardization

Language and languages -- Ability testing

Language and languages -- Variation

Standard language

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously pub.: 1985.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-185) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Authority in Language; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Preface to the third edition; Key to symbols and abbreviations used in the text; Foreword to the fourth edition; 1. Prescription and standardisation; 2. Standard 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. Some practical implications of prescriptivism: educationalissues and language assessment procedures

9. Two nations divided by the same language?: the standardlanguage ideology in Britain and the United StatesAfterword; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.