Acculturation Among the Gullah Negroes

Chapters in this book

1. I-VIII I
2. General Introduction: Perspectives on Black English 9
3. BLACK ENGLISH DIALECTOLOGY: THEORY, METHOD
4. Introduction 33
5. American Linguistic Geography: A Sociological Appraisal 37
6. Observations (1966) on the Problems of Defining Negro Dialect 57
7. Black American English and Syntactic Dialectology 65
8. Dialectology in Generative Grammar 74
9. Ain’t, Not, and Don’t in Black English 86
10. THE HISTORY OF BLACK ENGLISH
11. Introduction 91
12. The Religious Intelligencer (1821), Excerpts 102
13. Das Neger-Englisch an der Westküste von Afrika 109
14. Negro English 143
15. A Word-List from East Alabama 196
16. Some Special West African English Words 202
17. A Note on the Words dash and ju-ju in West African English 212
18. Negro Dialect 216
19. Sociolinguistic Factors in the History of American Negro Dialects 222
20. Continuity and Change in American Negro Dialects 233
21. Some Aspects of English in Liberia 248
22. Appendix: Liberian English of Cape Palmas (with Piayon E. Kobbah) 256
23. BLACK ENGLISH AND THE ACCULTURATION PROCESS
24. Introduction 273
25. Acculturation Among the Gullah Negroes 280
26. The Writings of Herskovits and the Study of the Language of the Negro in the New World 288
27. Black Kinesics — Some Non-Verbal Communication Patterns in the Black Culture 296
28. BLACK ENGLISH AND PSYCHOLINGUISTICS
29. Introduction 307
30. Classroom Correction Tests 313
31. The Learning of Black English by Puerto Ricans in New York City 331
32. A Sociolinguistic Consideration of the Black English of Children in Northern Florida 358
33. White and Negro Listeners’ Reactions to Various American-English Dialects 369
34. References for the Introductions 378
35. Index 388