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Authority in language [electronic resource] : investigating standard English / James Milroy and Lesley Milroy.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Routledge linguistics classicsPublication details: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2012.Edition: 4th edDescription: xvi, 189 pISBN:
  • 9780203124666 (e-book : PDF)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: No titleOnline resources: Also available in print edition.
Contents:
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.
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Previously pub.: 1985.

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

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.

Also available in print edition.

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