Authority in Language - Milroy, James (Emeritus Professor of Linguistics, University of Sheffield, UK) a Milroy, Lesley (Professor Emerita, University of Michigan, USA and Fellow of the Faculty of Linguistics and Philology, University of Oxford, UK)

Authority in Language explores the perennially topical and controversial notion of correct and incorrect language.This seminal text is here reissued with a new preface and a new final chapter looking at the histories created over some centuries for English, considering the scholarly activity itself as ideologically loaded.