Authority in language : investigating standard English
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
1 online resource (xi, 173 pages)
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Preface to the third edition; Key to symbols and abbreviations used in the text; Prescription and standardisation; Standard English and the complaint tradition; Spoken and written norms; Grammar and speech; Linguistic prescription and the speech community; Linguistic repertoires and communicative competence; 'Planned' and 'unplanned' speech events; Some practical implications of prescriptivism: educational issues and language assessment procedures; Two nations divided by the same language? The standard language ideology in Britain and the United States