Authority in Language: Investigating Standard English

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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Milroy, Lesley

Words, Language & Grammar

Routledge

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.

Milroy, James

Authority in Language (Routledge Linguistics Classics)

Authority in Language explores the perennially topical and controversial notion of correct and incorrect language. James and Lesley Milroy cover the long-running debate over the teaching of Standard English in Britain and compare the language ideologies in Britain and the USA, involving a discussion of the English-Only movement and the Ebonics controversy. They consider the historical process of standardisation and its social consequences, in particular discrimination against low-status and ethnic minority groups on the basis of their language traits. This Routledge Linguistics Classic is here reissued with a new foreword and a new afterword in which the authors broaden their earlier concept of language ideology. Authority in Language is indispensable reading for educationalists, teachers and linguists and a long-standing text for courses in sociolinguistics, modern English grammar, history of English and language ideology.

Authority in Language: Investigating Standard English (Routledge Linguistics Classics)

Linguistics and Aphasia: Psycholinguistic and Pragmatic Aspects of Intervention (Language In Social Life)

Linguistics and Aphasia is a major study of recent developments in applying psycholinguistics and pragmatics to the study of acquired language disorders (aphasia) and their remediation. Psycholinguistic analyses of aphasia interpret disorders in terms of damaged modules and processes within what was once a normal language system. These analyses have progressed to the point that they now routinely provide a model-based rationalefor planning patient therapy. Through a series of case studies, the authors show how the psycholinguistic analysis of aphasia can be assessed for its effectiveness in clinical practice. Pragmatic approaches to the study of aphasia are of more recent origin. Ruth Lesser and Lesley Milroy evaluate their considerable significance to the study of aphasia and their relevance to practical issues of diagnosis and treatment. Controversial analysis, in particular, offers a fruitful and productive framework within which to assess the functional adequacy of the language used by aphasic speakers in everyday contexts.

Linguistics and Aphasia (Language In Social Life)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Lesser, Ruth

Psychology & Counseling

Language and social networks (Language in society)

First published in 1980, Language and Social Networks has had a great influence on the development of sociolinguistics. The second edition incorporates an extensive new chapter reappraising the original research and discussing other sociolinguistic work in the same paradigm.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

B. Blackwell

Milroy discusses the problems and principles of studying language in its social context. She relates methods of carrying out sociolinguistic research to the theories which underlie them and she considers the theoretical and practical implications of particular methodological choices.

Observing and Analysing Natural Language: A Critical Account of Sociolinguistic Method (Language in Society, Vol 12)

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Blackwell Pub.

Social networks -- those informal and formal social relationships of which any human society is composed -- are distinguished by their own patters of language use. Lesley Milroy is concerned with the manner in which patterns of linguisitic variation characterize particular groups (social and cultural, geographic, male and female) within a complex urban community.

Observing and Analysing Natural Language: A Critical Account of Sociolinguistic Method

Wiley/Blackwell

Language and Social Networks

Sociolinguistics: Method and Interpretation presents a thorough and practical description of current sociolinguistic methodology while recognizing that methodological decisions can never be separated from questions of theory.    Presents a thorough and practical description of current sociolinguistic methodology.  Considers a range of issues including speaker selection, data collection, social considerations, phonological and syntactical variation, style-shifting and code-switching.  Recognizes that methodological decisions can never be separated from questions of theory.  Stresses the need for the entire research process from the initial design of the project to the interpretation of results to be grounded in theoretically defensible positions.  Shows how the research paradigm established by a few influential pioneers has been fruitfully expanded by exciting new trends.

Sociolinguistics: Method and Interpretation (Language in Society)

Gordon, Matthew

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Authority in Language: Investigating Standard English

Authority in Language: Investigating Standard English

Authority in Language: Investigating Standard English (Routledge Linguistics Classics)

Linguistics and Aphasia (Language In Social Life)

Language and social networks (Language in society)

Language and social networks (Language in society)

Observing and Analysing Natural Language: A Critical Account of Sociolinguistic Method (Language in Society, Vol 12)

Observing and Analysing Natural Language: A Critical Account of Sociolinguistic Method

Language and Social Networks

Sociolinguistics: Method and Interpretation (Language in Society)