The politics of discourse : the standard language question in British cultural debates

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The politics of discourse : the standard language question in British cultural debates

Tony Crowley

Macmillan Education, 1989

  • : hard
  • : pbk

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Bibliography: p. 279-298

Includes index

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'...this is not just another book on the history of the study of English; it is a monumental critique of the relationship between language and power.' Mpalive-Hangson Msiska, University of Malawi

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 A history of "the history of the language": the appearance of historicity
  • history and language in Britain
  • appeals for "the history of the language"
  • the birth of "the history of the language"
  • the study of language and British history. Part 2 Archbishop Trench's theory of language - the tractatus theologic-politicus: language as material history
  • the historical theology of language
  • language - the political unconscious
  • language and social unity
  • Trench and the appeal for English studies. Part 3 The standard language - the literary language: maintaining standards
  • finding a language - where to look and what to look for
  • the standard language - the uniform language?, the central form
  • the "OED" - the theoretical source of the standard literary language. Part 4 The standard language - the language of the literate: another standard
  • "the higher instrument - a standard for speech
  • the lower instruments of speech - the spoken dialects
  • the standard spoken language - whose language?
  • sub-standard English - the fatal letters. Part 5 Theorizing the standard - Jones and Wyld: theorizing the standard - Daniel Jones
  • Henry Wyld
  • further theoretical developments
  • the best English - the superiority of received standard English. Part 6 Language against modernity: language and class
  • the articulate and the barbarians
  • language, nation and citizenship
  • education and language
  • conclusion - language against modernity. Part 7 Past and present: mellifluous rhetoric
  • returning to Victorian values
  • the politics of discourse.

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