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100 1 _aMilroy, James,
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245 1 0 _aAuthority in language :
_binvestigating standard English /
_cJames Milroy and Lesley Milroy.
250 _aThird edition.
264 1 _aLondon [England] ;
_aNew York :
_bRoutledge,
_c1999.
300 _axi, 173 pages ;
_c25 cm
336 _atext
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337 _aunmediated
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338 _avolume
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504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 161-170) and index.
505 0 _aPart 1 Prescription and standardization: language prescription and its consequences; lingusitics and prescription; attitudes to language; languages standardization. Part 2 Standard English and the complaint tradition: the history of standard English; the function of language complaints in maintaining the standard; correctness and semantic shift; George Orwell and the moralistic tradition; standardization and the teaching of literacy; conclusions. Part 3 Spoken and written norms: language change and language maintenance; spoken English and the effects of literacy; the spoken and written channels; conclusions. Part 4 Grammar and speech: prescription and spoken language; prescription and contextual variability in speech; the grammar of non-standard English; conclusion. Part 5 Linguistic prescription and the speech community: the social distribution of linguistic variants; some common prescriptions - a critique; a wider perspective on prescriptivism; group identity and language variation; conclusion. Part 6 Linguistic repertoires and communicative competence: communicative competence; types of linguistic repertoire; some practical considerations; observing and analyzing linguistic repertoires; conclusion. Part 7 "Planned" and "unplanned" speech events: spoken and written language; planned and unplanned discourse; the discourse of structure of interviews; applying sociolinguistic principles to test situations - an example; some wider implications; conclusion. Part 8 Some practical implications of prescriptivism - the linguistic adequacy of language assessment procedures: linguistic critiques of language tests - the question of linguistic realism; linguistic critiques of language tests - the question of cultural linguistic bias; concluding remarks; coda.
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