Emma Moore receives funding from the British Academy. She is a British Academy Mid-Career Fellow. Tensions are running high. The battle for Brexit is reaching its climax. The need for government ...

For years, many academics have questioned the importance — even the justice — of requiring college students to master standard English. The discussion 20 or 30 years ago was about a student’s right to ...

In this article, I argue that at least in some subsets of grammar, non-standard dialects are indeed more natural than their standard counterparts. I present data from the new Freiburg English Dialect ...

In March, at the annual Conference on College Composition and Communication, one panel presentation was of particular interest: It concerned requirements in first-year college composition classes and ...

Disadvantaged Negro and lower-middle-class white children were administered a repetition task involving standard and nonstandard English sentences. Results indicated that Negro children performed ...