Abstract
The term ideology itself has recently gained a lot of attention in anthropology, sociolinguistics and cultural studies. As a starting point it seems crucial to form an area of inquiry, that is the sense of language ideology. Here Alan Rumsay’s (1990, p. 346) definition is a useful starting point: „[…] linguistic ideologies are shared bodies of commonsense notions about the nature of language in the world”. The article aims to look at the way EFL dictionaries cope with the task to present the standardization of certain words and usages. In other words, we will attempt to find out if/how lexicographers cope with the job of being legislators, if their products advise about the proper usage as well as meanings of the words available in the standard forms of English. In order to achieve this goal, the number of issues of paramount importance will be investigated:
 
 The term of linguistic ideology,
 The concept of standardization
 The dictionaries and ideology of standard – the state of the art
 
 
 Our method is making comparisons between different lexicographic sources (dictionaries) in relation to selected entries, and generalising from the way the latter are presented (in the sense of formal and semantic values).
Highlights
The term ideology itself has recently gained a lot of attention in anthropology, sociolinguistics and cultural studies
When we look further than the word itself, we immediately see that the concept applies to language studies as indicated, among others, by Michel Pêcheux (1982), John B
Tom McArthur (1992, p. 156) goes deeper into the issue in distinguishing between two terms, namely: 1) A broader interpretation: British English is the English language used in Great Britain, and following this way of thinking it covers all varieties, including all social levels, 2) A narrower interpretation: British English is the form of Standard English used in Britain at large
Summary
The term ideology itself has recently gained a lot of attention in anthropology, sociolinguistics and cultural studies. 509) deÞnes the targeted term standard language in the following way: standard dialect, standard language, standard the variety of a language which has the highest STATUS in a community or nation and which is usually based on the speech and writing of educated native speakers of the language.
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