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Standard English and the Politics of Language
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The status of 'Standard English' has featured in linguistic, educational and cultural debates over decades. This second edition of Tony Crowley's wide-ranging historical analysis and lucid account of the complex and sometimes polarised arguments driving the debate brings us up to date, and ranges from the 1830s to Conservative education policies in the 1990s and on to the implications of the National Curriculum for English language teaching in schools. Students and researchers in literacy, the history of English language, cultural theory, and English language education will find this treatment comprehensive, carefully researched and lively reading.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Preface to the Revised Second Edition
- Preface to the First Edition
- Acknowledgement
- Introduction
- 1 A History of 'The History of the Language'
- 2 Archbishop Trench's Theory of Language: the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus
- 3 The Standard Language: the Literary Language
- 4 The Standard Language: the Language of the Literate
- 5 Theorising the Standard: Jones and Wyld
- 6 Language Against Modernity
- 7 Continuities: Past and Present
- 8 Conclusion: Further Confusion: Kingman, Cox, the National Curriculum and After
- Notes
- Bibliography of Works Consulted
- Index