Keywords in Language and Literacy

Just what is Standard English? Is it correct English? Should grammar be taught?
The answers to such questions invariably provoke controversy. In this handy A to Z guide to language and literacy, Ronald Carter unpicks the meaning of key terms like `proper English'', `real books'', `text'', and `discourse'', and the ways in which concepts are used - and abused - by teachers, politicians, linguists, j...