Standard English and the Politics of Language

by Tony Crowley and Tony Crowley

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333990358
• ISBN13: 9780333990353
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.9"