James Milroy, Lesley Milroy

Authority in Language (eBook, PDF)

Investigating Standard English

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Authority in Language explores the perennially topical and controversial notion of correct and incorrect language.This seminal text is here reissued with a new preface and a new final chapter looking at the histories created over some centuries for English, considering the scholarly activity itself as ideologically loaded.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. März 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136446245
• Artikelnr.: 38253034

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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: Educational Issues and
Language Assessment Procedures. 9.Two Nations Divided by the Same Language?
The Standard Language Ideology in Britain and the United States.