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This book has a great track record; of its kind its the best on the market. - Deborah Cameron, University of Strathclyde This influential and widely used book has been extensively revised and includes a new chapter on linguistic discrimination on the basis of class, race and ethnicity. Other topics covered include: * National Curriculum and arguments about linguistic correctness * * new varieties of English (including African American English) * attitudes to language These revisions ensure Authority in Language remains topical and up-to-date.

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Author:   Lesley Milroy ,  Lesley Milroy
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   3rd New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.295kg
ISBN:  

9780415174138

ISBN 10:   0415174139
Pages:   188
Publication Date:   12 November 1998
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Awaiting stock  

Table of Contents

Part 1 Prescription and standardization: language prescription and its consequences; lingusitics and prescription; attitudes to language; languages standardization. Part 2 Standard English and the complaint tradition: the history of standard English; the function of language complaints in maintaining the standard; correctness and semantic shift; George Orwell and the moralistic tradition; standardization and the teaching of literacy; conclusions. Part 3 Spoken and written norms: language change and language maintenance; spoken English and the effects of literacy; the spoken and written channels; conclusions. Part 4 Grammar and speech: prescription and spoken language; prescription and contextual variability in speech; the grammar of non-standard English; conclusion. Part 5 Linguistic prescription and the speech community: the social distribution of linguistic variants; some common prescriptions - a critique; a wider perspective on prescriptivism; group identity and language variation; conclusion. Part 6 Linguistic repertoires and communicative competence: communicative competence; types of linguistic repertoire; some practical considerations; observing and analyzing linguistic repertoires; conclusion. Part 7 Planned and unplanned speech events: spoken and written language; planned and unplanned discourse; the discourse of structure of interviews; applying sociolinguistic principles to test situations - an example; some wider implications; conclusion. Part 8 Some practical implications of prescriptivism - the linguistic adequacy of language assessment procedures: linguistic critiques of language tests - the question of linguistic realism; linguistic critiques of language tests - the question of cultural linguistic bias; concluding remarks; coda.

Reviews

Milroy and Milroy's sociolinguistic research is among the most important of their generation in the English-speaking world...The book is brightly and intelligently written. It is, in almost all respects, scientifically impeccable.... <br>-American Literature <br>

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