It's linguistic, too -- at least in the eyes of Dr. David Crystal, an eminent Welsh authority on language and the producer of many scholarly volumes, including the Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language.
Brilliantly, Mrs Malaprop believes she's an authority on language, as well as manners and diction.
This summer, the Modern Chinese Dictionary, the national authority on language, added a new word: maiguan, "to buy a government promotion".
I love music so much that, in poetry, I'm always looking for an authority in language that is not wholly dependent on meaning.
In 1976, Dr. Damasio and his wife, Hanna Damasio, also a neurologist, became professors at the University of Iowa, where he acquired a reputation as an authority on language, memory and Alzheimer's disease.
Radicals in France, Spain or Greece seem to have no problem couching their challenges to existing authority in language that grasps the meaning of nationhood, and even exhibits pride in it.
Language examination authorities and language testers have so far attempted to align examinations to the CEFR or design tests or self-assessment instruments based on the CEFR scale (e.g., DIALANG, see http://www.dialang.org; see also Khalifa and Ffrench 2008; Huhta et al. 2002; North 2002).
For example, when a central authority nationalizes one language, that attaches economic and social advantages to the prestige language.
By the time of his death, he was perhaps the leading authority on the language of his country.
Chinese computer databases often contain fewer than 27,000 Chinese characters, while the Kangxi Dictionary from 1716, the authority on the language, contains 50,000 characters.
