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 discussio[...]
Authority in Language explores the perennially topical and controversial notion of correct and incorrect language.This seminal text is here reissued with a new preface and a new final chapter looking at the histories created over some centuries for English, considering the scholarly activity itself [...]