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Language in the inner city ; studies in the Black English vernacular.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, c1972Description: xxiv, 412 p. illus. 24 cmISBN:
  • 0812276582
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 427.973
LOC classification:
  • PE3102.N4 L3
Contents:
List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Introduction -- Pt. I. The Structure of the Black English Vernacular -- 1. Some Sources of Reading Problems for Speakers of the Black English Vernacular -- 2. Is the Black English Vernacular a Separate System? -- 3. Contraction, Deletion, and Inherent Variability of the English Copula -- 4. Negative Attraction and Negative Concord -- Pt. II. The Vernacular in Its Social Setting -- 5. The Logic of Nonstandard English -- 6. The Relation of Reading Failure to Peer-Group Status -- 7. The Linguistic Consequences of Being a Lame -- Pt. III. The Uses of the Black English Vernacular -- 8. Rules for Ritual Insults -- 9. The Transformation of Experience in Narrative Syntax -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Bibliography: p. 397-405.

List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Introduction -- Pt. I. The Structure of the Black English Vernacular -- 1. Some Sources of Reading Problems for Speakers of the Black English Vernacular -- 2. Is the Black English Vernacular a Separate System? -- 3. Contraction, Deletion, and Inherent Variability of the English Copula -- 4. Negative Attraction and Negative Concord -- Pt. II. The Vernacular in Its Social Setting -- 5. The Logic of Nonstandard English -- 6. The Relation of Reading Failure to Peer-Group Status -- 7. The Linguistic Consequences of Being a Lame -- Pt. III. The Uses of the Black English Vernacular -- 8. Rules for Ritual Insults -- 9. The Transformation of Experience in Narrative Syntax -- Bibliography -- Index.

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