Authority in Language

<p><em>Authority in Language</em> explores the perennially topical and controversial notion of correct and incorrect language.</p><p>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.</p><p>This <em>Routledge Linguistics Classic</em> is here reissued with a new foreword and a new afterword in which the authors broaden their earlier concept of language ideology.</p><p><em>Authority in Language</em> 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.</p>