Perspectives on Black English

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Perspectives on Black English

Edited by: Joey L. Dillard

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 1975

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Volume 4 | Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL]

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I-VIII Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	I
General Introduction: Perspectives on Black English J. L. Dillard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	9
BLACK ENGLISH DIALECTOLOGY: THEORY, METHOD
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	33
American Linguistic Geography: A Sociological Appraisal Glenna Ruth Pickford Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	37
Observations (1966) on the Problems of Defining Negro Dialect William A. Stewart Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	57
Black American English and Syntactic Dialectology Marvin D. Loflin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	65
Dialectology in Generative Grammar Philip A. Luelsdorff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	74
Ain’t, Not, and Don’t in Black English Joan G. Fickett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	86
THE HISTORY OF BLACK ENGLISH
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	91
The Religious Intelligencer (1821), Excerpts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	102
Das Neger-Englisch an der Westküste von Afrika P. Grade Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	109
Negro English J. A. Harrison Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	143
A Word-List from East Alabama Jr. Payne Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	196
Some Special West African English Words Paul Christophersen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	202
A Note on the Words dash and ju-ju in West African English Paul Christophersen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	212
Negro Dialect C. M. Wise Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	216
Sociolinguistic Factors in the History of American Negro Dialects William A. Stewart Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	222
Continuity and Change in American Negro Dialects William A. Stewart Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	233
Some Aspects of English in Liberia Ian F. Hancock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	248
Appendix: Liberian English of Cape Palmas (with Piayon E. Kobbah) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	256
BLACK ENGLISH AND THE ACCULTURATION PROCESS
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	273
Acculturation Among the Gullah Negroes William R. Bascom Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	280
The Writings of Herskovits and the Study of the Language of the Negro in the New World J. L. Dillard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	288
Black Kinesics — Some Non-Verbal Communication Patterns in the Black Culture Kenneth R. Johnson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	296
BLACK ENGLISH AND PSYCHOLINGUISTICS
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	307
Classroom Correction Tests William Labov, Clarence Robins, Paul Cohen and John Lewis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	313
The Learning of Black English by Puerto Ricans in New York City Stuart Silverman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	331
A Sociolinguistic Consideration of the Black English of Children in Northern Florida Susan H. Houston Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	358
White and Negro Listeners’ Reactions to Various American-English Dialects Wallace E. Lambert and G. Richard Tucker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	369
References for the Introductions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	378
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	388

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eBook published on:

December 15, 2010

eBook ISBN:

9783110905328

Hardcover published on:

January 1, 1975

Hardcover ISBN:

9789027978110

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Reprint 2010

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392

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https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110905328

eBook ISBN: 9783110905328

Hardcover ISBN: 9789027978110

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