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
Macmillan Education, 1989
- : hard
- : pbk
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Note
Bibliography: p. 279-298
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
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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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