Standard English and the Politics of Language
| Author | : Tony Crowley |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 320 |
| Release | : 1989 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : |
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Standard English and the Politics of Language
| Author | : T. Crowley |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 292 |
| Release | : 2003-06-24 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 0230501931 |
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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.
Politics and the English Language
| Author | : George Orwell |
| Publisher | : Renard Press Ltd |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2021-01-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 1913724271 |
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George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Politics and the English Language, the second in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell takes aim at the language used in politics, which, he says, ‘is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind’. In an age where the language used in politics is constantly under the microscope, Orwell’s Politics and the English Language is just as relevant today, and gives the reader a vital understanding of the tactics at play. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times
The Politics of English as a World Language
| Author | : Christian Mair |
| Publisher | : Rodopi |
| Total Pages | : 522 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9789042008762 |
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The complex politics of English as a world language provides the backdrop both for linguistic studies of varieties of English around the world and for postcolonial literary criticism. The present volume offers contributions from linguists and literary scholars that explore this common ground in a spirit of open interdisciplinary dialogue. Leading authorities assess the state of the art to suggest directions for further research, with substantial case studies ranging over a wide variety of topics - from the legitimacy of language norms of lingua franca communication to the recognition of newer post-colonial varieties of English in the online OED. Four regional sections treat the Caribbean (including the diaspora), Africa, the Indian subcontinent, and Australasia and the Pacific Rim. Each section maintains a careful balance between linguistics and literature, and external and indigenous perspectives on issues. The book is the most balanced, complete and up-to-date treatment of the topic to date.
The Politics of Discourse
| Author | : Tony Crowley |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 322 |
| Release | : 1989 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : |
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An exploration of the origins of the English language with historical and political background and theories. The author examines both literary and standard English and discusses the connections between language and class, language against modernity and the politics of discourse.
Politics and the English Language
| Author | : George Orwell |
| Publisher | : Penguin UK |
| Total Pages | : 29 |
| Release | : 2013-01-03 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 0141976292 |
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'Politics and the English Language' is widely considered Orwell's most important essay on style. Style, for Orwell, was never simply a question of aesthetics; it was always inextricably linked to politics and to truth.'All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.When the general atmosphere is bad, language must suffer.'Language is a political issue, and slovenly use of language and cliches make it easier for those in power to deliberately use misleading language to hide unpleasant political facts. Bad English, he believed, was a vehicle for oppressive ideology, and it is no accident that 'Politics and the English Language' was written after the close of World War II.
Language is Power
| Author | : John Honey |
| Publisher | : Gardners Books |
| Total Pages | : 298 |
| Release | : 1997-01-01 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780571190478 |
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Across the English-speaking world there is a liberal orthodoxy which opposes the use of standard English in schools and in society at large. But does this truly protect the underprivileged, or has it inflicted lasting educational damage on a generation of children? Is Steven Pinker, best-selling author of The Language Instinct, right to claim that all languages and dialects are equal? Professor John Honey refutes the arguments that for the past three decades have been put forward against standard English, and shows how apparently egalitarian notions of 'Black English' and other dialects can effectively limit access to standard English and hence power for disadvantaged or minority groups. He discusses the charge that the worldwide teaching of English amounts to 'linguistic imperialism', and examines whether British English will inevitably lose out to American.
The Politics of English
| Author | : Marnie Holborow |
| Publisher | : SAGE |
| Total Pages | : 232 |
| Release | : 1999-12-06 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780761960188 |
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`A very welcome and much-needed broadening of current theoretical perspectives' - Professor Norman Fairclough This book offers a major reappraisal of the role of language in the social world. Focusing on three main areas - the global spread of English; Standard English; and language and sexism - The Politics of English: examines World English in relation to international capitalism and colonialism; analyzes the ideological underpinnings of the debate about Standard English; and locates sexism in language as arising from social relations. Locating itself in the classical Marxist tradition, this book shows how language is both shaped by, and contributes to social life.
Class Politics
| Author | : Stephen Parks |
| Publisher | : Parlor Press LLC |
| Total Pages | : 365 |
| Release | : 2013-03-27 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1602354200 |
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Class Politics The Movement for the Students’ Right to Their Own Language (2e) is a response to histories of Composition Studies that focused on scholarly articles and university programs as the generative source for the field. Such histories, particularly in the 1980s and 1990s divorced the field from activist politics—washing out such work in the name of disciplinary identity. Class Politics shows the importance of political mass movements in the formation of Composition Studies—particularly Civil Rights and Black Power. Class Politics also critiques how the field appropriates these movements. The book traces a pathway from social movement, to progressive academic groups, to their work in professional organizations, to the formation of the Students’ Right to Their Own Language. Stephen Parks then shows how the SRTOL was attacked and politically neutralized by conservative forces in the 1980s and 1990s, arguing for a return to politics to reanimate it’s importance—and the importance of politics in the field. “Stephen Parks restores politics to the history of Composition Studies.” —Richard Ohmann
The Politics of Language
| Author | : Carol L. Schmid |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 232 |
| Release | : 2001-05-03 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0198031505 |
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Important aspects of the history of language in the United States remain shrouded in myth and legend. The notion of "one nation, one language" is part of the idealized history of the United States, although in its short history it has probably been host to more bilingual people than any other country in the world. Language is more than a means of communication. It brings into play an entire range of experiences and attitudes toward life. Furthermore, language is a potent symbolic issue because it links power and political claims of ownership with psychological demands for group worth. How people belonging to different language and cultural communities live together in the same political community and how political and structural tensions arise to divide them along language lines, are questions addressed in The Politics of Language. This book analyzes the historical background and recent controversy over language in the United States and compares it to two official multilingual societies: Canada and Switzerland. It's accessibility as a survey of this topic makes it ideal for courses in linguistics, political science, and sociology.
