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Authority in Language

James Milroy | Lesley Milroy
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Authority in Language
Black English
Black English Vernacular
British Black English
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Common Language
communicative competence
Ebonics
English Grammar
English-Only
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Estuary English
Glottal Stop
Great Grammar Debate
History of English
Individual's Language Ability
James Milroy
language assessment
language ideology
language ideology in education
language standardisation
Lesley Milroy
linguistic discrimination
modern English grammar
Non-standard Dialect
Non-standard Speakers
Northern Irish English
Past Tense
Prescriptive Attitudes
prescriptive grammar
Resumptive Pronoun
Reynell's Developmental Language Scale
sociolinguistic variation
sociolinguistics
Speech Events
Standard English
Standard Ideology
Standard Language Culture
Standard Language Ideology
Unplanned Discourse
Young Men

Product details

  • ISBN 9780415696821
  • Weight: 540g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 24 Feb 2012
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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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.
About James Milroy | Lesley Milroy
James Milroy is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics, University of Sheffield, and Fellow of the Faculty of Linguistics and Philology, University of Oxford. He is author of Language Variation and Change.   Lesley Milroy is currently Professor Emerita, University of Michigan and a Fellow of the Faculty of Linguistics and Philology, University of Oxford. She is co-author of Sociolinguistics: Method and Interpretation.    

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