Write down a small summary about • Standard language ideology relates to the way society thinks about language standards in terms of what is 'correct' or 'acceptable'. - 'Language Ideology can be defined, in broad terms, as the structured and consequential ways we think about language' (Seargeant, 2009, p. 26). • The belief in the existence of a 'standard' English is deeply rooted in the history of the English language. • Lecture 1 recap: - British rulers sought a 'standard' - Chancery Standard English instigated as the language of court (1300s) - Invention of the printing press. • Spelling standardization was first: - Samuel Johnson's (1755) Dictionary of the English Language - Noah Webster's (1828) American Dictionary of the English Language. • Standard language ideology also emerged through accepted usage and not through printed matter. As Kachru and Smith (2008, p. 3) explain: - 'Codification is not a prerequisite for legitimizing a language. For instance, Australians spoke Australian English for years before a dictionary of Australian English (The Macquarie Dictionary, 1981) was compiled and a grammatical description of Australian English (Collins and Blair, 1989) appeared.'