Lesley Milroy
Biographic Data
| ID | 212417 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lesley Milroy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lesley |
| FAMILY NAME | Milroy |
| SIGNATURE | MILROY L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Newcastle University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 522 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Authority in Language
Authority in Language explores the perennially topical and controversial notion of correct and incorrect language. James and Lesley Milroy cover the long-running debate over the teaching of Standard English in Britain and compare the language ideologies in Britain and the USA, involving a discussion of the English-Only movement and the Ebonics controversy. They consider the historical process of standardisation and its social consequences, in par…
Network Structure and Linguistic Change
Off the shelf or under the counter? On the social dynamics of sound changes
Language Ideologies and Linguistic Change
Ronald Macaulay’s (1977) account of the Glasgow speech community would today be described as “variationist,” that is, contributory to the core area of sociolinguistics, which focuses primarily on developing socially sensitive accounts of language variation and processes of language change. Macaulay also dealt extensively, but separately, with language attitudes. In this chapter I present work in progress, which similarly addresses both language a…
An essay in historical sociolinguistics?
Sociolinguistics
"Milroy and Gordon show how the research paradigm established by a few influential pioneers has been fruitfully expanded by new trends. Sociolinguistics considers issues of speaker selection and data collection; social dimensions of linguistic variation; syntactic and phonological variation; and style-shifting and code-switching. This book is a vital resource for helping readers design their research and evaluate the research of others"--Back cov…
Introduction
Conversational codeswitching among Korean-English bilingual children
Using the sequential analysis developed by Auer(1984,1995), this paper attempts to show how young Korean-English bilingual schoolchildren employ codeswitching to organize their conversation. Auer's distinction between participant-related and discourse-related codeswitching proved to be useful in revealing that the children employ codeswitching to negotiate the language for the interaction and accommodate other participants' language competences a…
Britain and the United States
This article examines popular beliefs about language in Britain and the United States within a language ideology framework. With particular reference to Silverstein's discussion of second-order indexicality, it argues that language varieties in Britain and the United States are differently ideologized in such a way as to foreground social class groups in Britain and ethnic groups in the United States. This difference gives rise to characteristica…
One Speaker, Two Languages
Sharing the communicative burden
This article presents an analysis of conversation between people with linguistic impairment as a consequence of aphasia and their interlocutors. The challenge faced by linguistic-impaired conversationalists in achieving successful interaction provides an insight which highlights the essentially collaborative construction of all communication and the manner in which meanings are progressively negotiated and agreed over an often quite lengthy conve…
Descriptive adequacy in phonology
This paper offers a variationist critique of aspects of phonological theory and method, focusing on advances in descriptive methods and highlighting the problems that need to be addressed in explaining phonological variation. On the one hand, socially situated language samples which have been systematically collected and analysed constitute a legitimate – indeed often vital – source of evidence to be utilised by linguists for assessing and refini…
One Speaker, Two Languages
Code-switching - the alternating use of several languages by bilingual speakers - does not usually indicate lack of competence on the part of the speaker in any of the languages concerned, but results from complex bilingual skills. The reasons why people switch their codes are as varied as the directions from which linguists approach this issue, and raise many sociological, psychological, and grammatical questions. This volume of essays by leadin…
Conversational code-switching in a Chinese community in Britain
Glottal stops and Tyneside glottalization
Glottalization and glottal replacement (particularly of /t/ in British English) have traditionally been assumed to be variants characteristic of male, lower-class speakers. Both phenomena have been heavily stigmatized, but are spreading rapidly. Recent studies in various parts of the British Isles (including Tyneside) have suggested that glottal replacement of /t/ is led by middle-class and/or female speakers. A fuller understanding of the nature…
Local and Supra-Local Change in British English - The Case of Glottalisation
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Mechanisms of change in urban dialects
This paper begins by noting that the dominance of social class as a speaker variable and interpretative category has led to unsatisfactory interpretations of linguistic variability, and it goes on to investigate the use of the variables social class, social network , and gender . Evidence and arguments are produced to suggest that gender difference is often prior to social class in accounting for sociolinguistic variation. Next, the complex relat…
Panjabi/English language alternation in the early school years
A two-step sociolinguistic analysis of code-switching and language choice
The main concern of this article is an analysis of patterns of language choice (at the community level) and of language mixing (at the interactional level) in a Chinese/English-speaking bilingual community in the northeast of England. The social network concept is used as a tool for analysing both the informal social organisation of the community and the manner in which language choice patterns are related to the different types of social relatio…
Social network and social class
In sociolinguistics, approaches that use the variables of socioeconomic class and social network have often been thought to be irreconcilable. In this article, we explore the connection between these variables and suggest the outlines of a model that can integrate them in a coherent way. This depends on linking a consensus-based microlevel of network with a conflict-based macrolevel of social class. We suggest interpretations of certain socioling…
Discourse patterns and fieldwork strategies in urban settings
The paper evaluates the contribution of the different methodological procedures and principles offered by William Labov and John Gumperz, with particular reference to the problem of observer effect in community‐level investigations of linguistic minorities. While Labov's work seems generally to have fallen somewhat out of favour in recent years, and was in any event not devised for bilingual communities, it still offers researchers a clear set of…
Language and Social Networks
Observing and Analyzing Natural Language
Authority in Language
Shorter notices
Ralph Fasold, The sociolinguistics of society. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1984. Pp. xiii + 335. Suzanne Romaine (ed.), Sociolinguistic variation in speech communities. London: Edward Arnold, 1982. Pp. 179. Caroline Macafee, Glasgow. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1983. Pp. 167. John Platt, heidi Webber & Mian Lian Ho, Singapore and Malaysia. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1983. Pp. iv + 138. W. S. Chisholm Jr (ed.), Interrogativity. A colloquium on the grammar, typo…
Linguistic change, social network and speaker innovation
This paper is concerned with the social mechanisms of linguistic change, and we begin by noting the distinction drawn by Bynon (1977) between two quite different approaches to the study of linguistic change. The first and more idealized, associated initially with traditional nineteenth century historical linguistics, involves the study of successive 'states of the language', states reconstructed by the application of comparative techniques to nec…
Social network and social class
In sociolinguistics, approaches that use the variables of socioeconomic class and social network have often been thought to be irreconcilable. In this article, we explore the connection between these variables and suggest the outlines of a model that can integrate them in a coherent way. This depends on linking a consensus-based microlevel of network with a conflict-based macrolevel of social class. We suggest interpretations of certain socioling…
Sociolinguistics
"Milroy and Gordon show how the research paradigm established by a few influential pioneers has been fruitfully expanded by new trends. Sociolinguistics considers issues of speaker selection and data collection; social dimensions of linguistic variation; syntactic and phonological variation; and style-shifting and code-switching. This book is a vital resource for helping readers design their research and evaluate the research of others"--Back cov…
Britain and the United States
This article examines popular beliefs about language in Britain and the United States within a language ideology framework. With particular reference to Silverstein's discussion of second-order indexicality, it argues that language varieties in Britain and the United States are differently ideologized in such a way as to foreground social class groups in Britain and ethnic groups in the United States. This difference gives rise to characteristica…
Glottal stops and Tyneside glottalization
Glottalization and glottal replacement (particularly of /t/ in British English) have traditionally been assumed to be variants characteristic of male, lower-class speakers. Both phenomena have been heavily stigmatized, but are spreading rapidly. Recent studies in various parts of the British Isles (including Tyneside) have suggested that glottal replacement of /t/ is led by middle-class and/or female speakers. A fuller understanding of the nature…
Introduction
Conversational code-switching in a Chinese community in Britain
Descriptive adequacy in phonology
This paper offers a variationist critique of aspects of phonological theory and method, focusing on advances in descriptive methods and highlighting the problems that need to be addressed in explaining phonological variation. On the one hand, socially situated language samples which have been systematically collected and analysed constitute a legitimate – indeed often vital – source of evidence to be utilised by linguists for assessing and refini…
A two-step sociolinguistic analysis of code-switching and language choice
The main concern of this article is an analysis of patterns of language choice (at the community level) and of language mixing (at the interactional level) in a Chinese/English-speaking bilingual community in the northeast of England. The social network concept is used as a tool for analysing both the informal social organisation of the community and the manner in which language choice patterns are related to the different types of social relatio…
Local and Supra-Local Change in British English - The Case of Glottalisation
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Mechanisms of change in urban dialects
This paper begins by noting that the dominance of social class as a speaker variable and interpretative category has led to unsatisfactory interpretations of linguistic variability, and it goes on to investigate the use of the variables social class, social network , and gender . Evidence and arguments are produced to suggest that gender difference is often prior to social class in accounting for sociolinguistic variation. Next, the complex relat…
Vernacular language loyalty and social network
Several urban language studies over the past fifteen years have convinvigly established the links between a speaker's language and her ot his age, sex, and social class, yet very much more remains to be said about individual differences within these variable groups. Several linguists (e.g., Gumperz 1976; Rusell 1977; Bickerton 1975) havee made observations similar to Le Page (1968) that "the individual creates his system of verbal behaviour so as…
Language and group identity
(1982). Language and group identity. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development: Vol. 3, Language and Ethnicity, pp. 207-216
Discourse patterns and fieldwork strategies in urban settings
The paper evaluates the contribution of the different methodological procedures and principles offered by William Labov and John Gumperz, with particular reference to the problem of observer effect in community‐level investigations of linguistic minorities. While Labov's work seems generally to have fallen somewhat out of favour in recent years, and was in any event not devised for bilingual communities, it still offers researchers a clear set of…
Panjabi/English language alternation in the early school years
Sharing the communicative burden
This article presents an analysis of conversation between people with linguistic impairment as a consequence of aphasia and their interlocutors. The challenge faced by linguistic-impaired conversationalists in achieving successful interaction provides an insight which highlights the essentially collaborative construction of all communication and the manner in which meanings are progressively negotiated and agreed over an often quite lengthy conve…
What a performance! Some problems with the competence‐performance distinction
(1985). What a performance! Some problems with the competence‐performance distinction. Australian Journal of Linguistics: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 1-17
Vernacular language loyalty and social network
Several urban language studies over the past fifteen years have convinvigly established the links between a speaker's language and her ot his age, sex, and social class, yet very much more remains to be said about individual differences within these variable groups. Several linguists (e.g., Gumperz 1976; Rusell 1977; Bickerton 1975) havee made observations similar to Le Page (1968) that "the individual creates his system of verbal behaviour so as…
C. D. Heath, The pronunciation of English in Cannock, Staffordshire. (Publications of the Philological Society, XXIX). Oxford
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Language and group identity
(1982). Language and group identity. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development: Vol. 3, Language and Ethnicity, pp. 207-216
Linguistic Networks in Belfast
Authority in Language
Shorter notices
Ralph Fasold, The sociolinguistics of society. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1984. Pp. xiii + 335. Suzanne Romaine (ed.), Sociolinguistic variation in speech communities. London: Edward Arnold, 1982. Pp. 179. Caroline Macafee, Glasgow. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1983. Pp. 167. John Platt, heidi Webber & Mian Lian Ho, Singapore and Malaysia. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1983. Pp. iv + 138. W. S. Chisholm Jr (ed.), Interrogativity. A colloquium on the grammar, typo…
What a performance! Some problems with the competence‐performance distinction
(1985). What a performance! Some problems with the competence‐performance distinction. Australian Journal of Linguistics: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 1-17
Linguistic change, social network and speaker innovation
This paper is concerned with the social mechanisms of linguistic change, and we begin by noting the distinction drawn by Bynon (1977) between two quite different approaches to the study of linguistic change. The first and more idealized, associated initially with traditional nineteenth century historical linguistics, involves the study of successive 'states of the language', states reconstructed by the application of comparative techniques to nec…
Language and Social Networks
Observing and Analyzing Natural Language
Discourse patterns and fieldwork strategies in urban settings
The paper evaluates the contribution of the different methodological procedures and principles offered by William Labov and John Gumperz, with particular reference to the problem of observer effect in community‐level investigations of linguistic minorities. While Labov's work seems generally to have fallen somewhat out of favour in recent years, and was in any event not devised for bilingual communities, it still offers researchers a clear set of…
Panjabi/English language alternation in the early school years
A two-step sociolinguistic analysis of code-switching and language choice
The main concern of this article is an analysis of patterns of language choice (at the community level) and of language mixing (at the interactional level) in a Chinese/English-speaking bilingual community in the northeast of England. The social network concept is used as a tool for analysing both the informal social organisation of the community and the manner in which language choice patterns are related to the different types of social relatio…
Social network and social class
In sociolinguistics, approaches that use the variables of socioeconomic class and social network have often been thought to be irreconcilable. In this article, we explore the connection between these variables and suggest the outlines of a model that can integrate them in a coherent way. This depends on linking a consensus-based microlevel of network with a conflict-based macrolevel of social class. We suggest interpretations of certain socioling…
Mechanisms of change in urban dialects
This paper begins by noting that the dominance of social class as a speaker variable and interpretative category has led to unsatisfactory interpretations of linguistic variability, and it goes on to investigate the use of the variables social class, social network , and gender . Evidence and arguments are produced to suggest that gender difference is often prior to social class in accounting for sociolinguistic variation. Next, the complex relat…
Glottal stops and Tyneside glottalization
Glottalization and glottal replacement (particularly of /t/ in British English) have traditionally been assumed to be variants characteristic of male, lower-class speakers. Both phenomena have been heavily stigmatized, but are spreading rapidly. Recent studies in various parts of the British Isles (including Tyneside) have suggested that glottal replacement of /t/ is led by middle-class and/or female speakers. A fuller understanding of the nature…
Local and Supra-Local Change in British English - The Case of Glottalisation
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One Speaker, Two Languages
Code-switching - the alternating use of several languages by bilingual speakers - does not usually indicate lack of competence on the part of the speaker in any of the languages concerned, but results from complex bilingual skills. The reasons why people switch their codes are as varied as the directions from which linguists approach this issue, and raise many sociological, psychological, and grammatical questions. This volume of essays by leadin…
Conversational code-switching in a Chinese community in Britain
Sharing the communicative burden
This article presents an analysis of conversation between people with linguistic impairment as a consequence of aphasia and their interlocutors. The challenge faced by linguistic-impaired conversationalists in achieving successful interaction provides an insight which highlights the essentially collaborative construction of all communication and the manner in which meanings are progressively negotiated and agreed over an often quite lengthy conve…
Descriptive adequacy in phonology
This paper offers a variationist critique of aspects of phonological theory and method, focusing on advances in descriptive methods and highlighting the problems that need to be addressed in explaining phonological variation. On the one hand, socially situated language samples which have been systematically collected and analysed constitute a legitimate – indeed often vital – source of evidence to be utilised by linguists for assessing and refini…
One Speaker, Two Languages
Conversational codeswitching among Korean-English bilingual children
Using the sequential analysis developed by Auer(1984,1995), this paper attempts to show how young Korean-English bilingual schoolchildren employ codeswitching to organize their conversation. Auer's distinction between participant-related and discourse-related codeswitching proved to be useful in revealing that the children employ codeswitching to negotiate the language for the interaction and accommodate other participants' language competences a…
Britain and the United States
This article examines popular beliefs about language in Britain and the United States within a language ideology framework. With particular reference to Silverstein's discussion of second-order indexicality, it argues that language varieties in Britain and the United States are differently ideologized in such a way as to foreground social class groups in Britain and ethnic groups in the United States. This difference gives rise to characteristica…
Introduction
Linguistics (26 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (19 works) · Philosophy (18 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (16 works) · Computer Science (14 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (12 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Sociolinguistics (9 works) · Philosophy (8 works)