William Labov

Language in the Inner City

Studies in the Black English Vernacular

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Produktbeschreibung

Language in the Inner City firmly establishes African American Vernacular English not simply as slang but as a well-formed set of rules of pronunciation and grammar capable of conveying complex logic and reasoning and confirms the Black vernacular as a separate and independent dialect of English.

Produktdetails

• Conduct and Communication
• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 440
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 1973
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 660g
• ISBN-13: 9780812210514
• ISBN-10: 0812210514
• Artikelnr.: 22709776

Autorenporträt

William Labov is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of Sociolinguistic Patterns, also published by the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Figures
Tables
Introduction
PART 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
PART 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
PART III THE USES OF THE BLACK ENGLISH VERNACULAR
8- Rules for Ritual Insults
9- The Transformation of Experience in Narrative Syntax
Bibliography
Index