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Date: 14-May-2012 From: Tara Thomas <tara.thomastaylorandfrancis.com> Subject: Authority in Language: Milroy, Milroy E-mail this message to a friend
Title: Authority in Language
Subtitle: Investigating Standard English
Series Title: Routledge Linguistics Classics
Published: 2012
Publisher: Routledge (Taylor and Francis)
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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.
Linguistic Field(s):
History of Linguistics
Sociolinguistics
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