Publications

Publication details [#41612]

Williamson, John and F. Hardman. 1997. Those Terrible Marks of the Beast: Non-standard Dialect and Children's Writing. Language & Education 11 (4) : 287–299.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

child | standard1 vs. dialect2 | writing

Language as a subject

English, British

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This paper argues that the greater emphasis on standard English in the 1995 version of English in the National British Curriculum indicates that it now is more important than ever to comprehend the relationship between non-standard English dialects and standard English.