William Labov

Language in the Inner City

Studies in the Black English Vernacular

• Broschiertes Buch

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
• 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

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