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AUTHORITY IN LANGUAGE

‘This book has a great track record; of its kind it’s the best on the market. Teachers will

rejoice to see it updated once again.’

Deborah Cameron, University of Strathclyde

Reviews of first edition:

‘…this is an excellent book which is highly recommended for anyone interested

in language and education issues.’

Suzanne Romaine, Language and Society

‘…particularly welcome in that it draws together the various research findings that

bear on the vexed notion of whether there is a “good English” which teachers

should impart to their pupils.’

British Book News

Is the English language degenerating?

Are some dialects sloppy, lazy and ugly?

Authority in Language explores the perennially topical and controversial notion of

‘correct’ and ‘incorrect’ language. In this fully revised and updated third edition,

the authors:

• engage directly with the most recent arguments in the long-running debate

over the teaching of Standard English in Britain

• compare the language ideologies in Britain and the USA, involving a

discussion of the English Only movement and the Ebonics controversy.

The authors 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.

Authority in Language is indispensable for educationalists, teachers and linguists,

and ideal for courses in sociolinguistics, modern English grammar, history of English

and language ideology.

James Milroy and Lesley Milroy are Professors of Linguistics at the University

of Michigan.

AUTHORITY IN

LANGUAGE

Investigating Standard English

Third edition

James Milroy and Lesley Milroy

London and New York

First published 1985 by Routledge & Kegan Paul

This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2002.

First published in paperback 1987

Second edition published 1991

by Routledge

11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada

by Routledge

29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001

Third edition 1999

reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic,

mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter

invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any

information storage or retrieval system, without permission in

writing from the publishers.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data

Milroy, James.

Authority in language: investigating Standard English/James

Milroy and Lesley Milroy.—3rd ed.

p. cm.

1. Standard language. 2. English language—Standardization.

3. English language—Variation. I. Milroy, Lesley. II. Title.

P368.M54 1998

428–dc21

ISBN 0-203-02603-9 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN 0-203-20112-4 (Adobe eReader Format)

ISBN 0-415-17412-0 (hbk)

ISBN 0-415-17413-9 (pbk)

98–21927

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