The phrase "authority in language" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the power or influence someone has regarding language use, grammar, or linguistic norms.
Example: "The professor is considered an authority in language, often consulted for her expertise in linguistics."
Alternatives: "expert in language" or "linguistic authority".
Yet, such an aggressive approach is exactly what some EU nations have demanded of Greek authorities, couched in language that implies that we simply are not trying hard enough.
The authority of woman in language – her ability both to articulate herself and to make herself intelligible – is worlds away from her dispossession in art, the radicalism of her gaze, her struggle with the complicity of her own image as painterly subject and muse.
He seems furious at even the slightest hint of authority in my body language.
"It is not a history taught much at the high school or college level, so he became the foremost authority in the English language on colonialism and the independence movement in Puerto Rico".
These programs, focused largely on training in linguistics and syntax, together with research in Chinese linguistics, represent the central academic authority in international Chinese language teaching and research.
Yet the satisfactions were great: riveting episodes of flight, of cunning; the convincing commentary on adult behavior, watchful and insouciant; the authority of a child's voice in language cut for its renegade tongue and sharp intelligence.
The vulgar, misspelled, deeply inappropriate hijinks of George and Harold taught him that it's okay to challenge authority, that there's great freedom in language, and that a sense of humor is a pretty good skill in life.
"I'm Joe Gould, the historian, the poet, the historian, the wild Chippewa Indian dancer, and the greatest authority in the world on the language of the sea gull.
Besides — and this is something you people can't seem to get through your heads — I'm not just an ordinary person, I'm Joe Gould — I'm Joe Gould, the poet; I'm Joe Gould, the historian; I'm Joe Gould, the wild Chippewa Indian dancer; and I'm Joe Gould, the greatest authority in the world on the language of the sea gull.
