TY  - BOOK
AU  - Milroy,James
AU  - Milroy,Lesley
TI  - Authority in language: investigating standard English 
T2  - Routledge linguistics classics
SN  - 9780203124666 (e-book : PDF)
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Standard language
KW  - English language
KW  - Standardization
KW  - Language and languages
KW  - Variation
KW  - Communicative competence
KW  - Ability testing
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - lcsh
N1  - 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
UR  - http://www.tandfebooks.com/isbn/9780203124666
ER  -