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Black Street Speech : Its History, Structure
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Texas Press
ISBN-10
0292707452
ISBN-13
9780292707450
eBay Product ID (ePID)
84991
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
160 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Black Street Speech : Its History, Structure, and Survival
Subject
Linguistics / General, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publication Year
1983
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Social Science, Language Arts & Disciplines
Series
Texas Linguistics Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.4 in
Item Weight
8.2 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
8.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
83-010578
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A first-rate book by a noted sociolinguist.... This well-bound book with an excellent bibliography and index is clearly written in a comprehensible academic style. Highly recommended.
Dewey Decimal
427/.973
Table Of Content
Preface 1. Introduction: Street Speech as a Social Dialect 2. The Birth of Black Street Speech 3. Street Speech and Formal Speech: Linguistic Survival in Black and White Societies 4. The Scholar and the Street: Collecting the Data 5. Specialized Lexical Marking and Alternation Code Switching versus Style Shifting Topic-Related Shifting Syllable Contraction and Expansion Variable Forestressing of Bisyllabic Words Hypercorrection Lexical Summary 6. Unique Grammatical Usage Locating Suitable Examples Syntactic Constructions and Their Functions Grammatical Summary 7. Phonological Variation Suffix /-s/ Variation Consonant Cluster Reduction Is and Are Variation Postvocalic /r/ Variation Summary of Phonological and Morphological Variation 8. Educational Insights 9. Impediments to Employability 10. Dynamic Black Speech: A Nonideal Linguistic State Bibliography Index
Synopsis
In the minds of many, black street speech--the urban dialect of black Americans--bespeaks illiteracy, poverty, and ignorance. John Baugh challenges those prejudices in this brilliant new inquiry into the history, linguistic structure, and survival within white society of black street speech. In doing so, he successfully integrates a scholarly respect for black English with a humanistic approach to language differences that weds rigor of research with a keen sense of social responsibility. Baugh's is the first book on black English that is based on a long-term study of adult speakers. Beginning in 1972, black men and women in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Chicago, Austin, and Houston were repeatedly interviewed, in varied social settings, in order to determine the nature of their linguistic styles and the social circumstances where subtle changes in their speech appear. Baugh's work uncovered a far wider breadth of speaking styles among black Americans than among standard English speakers. Having detailed his findings, he explores their serious implications for the employability and education of black Americans. Black Street Speech is a work of enduring importance for educators, linguists, sociologists, scholars of black and urban studies, and all concerned with black English and its social consequences., The history, linguistic structure, and survival within white society of black street speech, based on a long-term study of adult speakers.
LC Classification Number
PE3102.N42.B38 1983
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