Authority in Language: Investigating Standard English Book

	Preface
	Preface to the third edition
	Key to symbols and abbreviations used in the text
1	Prescription and standardisation	1
2	Standard English and the complaint tradition	24
3	Spoken and written norms	47
4	Grammar and speech	60
5	Linguistic prescription and the speech community	77
6	Linguistic repertoires and communicative competence	99
7	'Planned' and 'unplanned' speech events	116
8	Some practical implications of prescriptivism: educational issues and language assessment procedures	131
9	Two nations divided by the same language? The standard language ideology in Britain and the United States	150
	Bibliography	161
	Index	171