Perspectives on Black English / / ed. by Joey L. Dillard.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics - <1990
• MitwirkendeR: Bascom, William R.,; Christophersen, Paul,; Cohen, Paul,; Dillard, J. L.,; Fickett, Joan G.,; Grade, P.,; Hancock, Ian F.,; Harrison, J. A.,; Houston, Susan H.,; Johnson, Kenneth R.,; Labov, William,; Lambert, Wallace E.,; Lewis, John,; Loflin, Marvin D.,; Luelsdorff, Philip A.,; Payne, Jr.,; Pickford, Glenna Ruth,; Robins, Clarence,; Silverman, Stuart,; Stewart, William A.,; Tucker, G. Richard,; Wise, C. M.,
• HerausgeberIn: Dillard, Joey L.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2010]; ©1975
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Edition: Reprint 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] , 4
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (392 p.) :; Num. figs.

Table of Contents

• I-VIII
• General Introduction: Perspectives on Black English
• BLACK ENGLISH DIALECTOLOGY: THEORY, METHOD
• Introduction
• American Linguistic Geography: A Sociological Appraisal
• Observations (1966) on the Problems of Defining Negro Dialect
• Black American English and Syntactic Dialectology
• Dialectology in Generative Grammar
• Ain’t, Not, and Don’t in Black English
• THE HISTORY OF BLACK ENGLISH
• Introduction
• The Religious Intelligencer (1821), Excerpts
• Das Neger-Englisch an der Westküste von Afrika
• Negro English
• A Word-List from East Alabama
• Some Special West African English Words
• A Note on the Words dash and ju-ju in West African English
• Negro Dialect
• Sociolinguistic Factors in the History of American Negro Dialects
• Continuity and Change in American Negro Dialects
• Some Aspects of English in Liberia
• Appendix: Liberian English of Cape Palmas (with Piayon E. Kobbah)
• BLACK ENGLISH AND THE ACCULTURATION PROCESS
• Introduction
• Acculturation Among the Gullah Negroes
• The Writings of Herskovits and the Study of the Language of the Negro in the New World
• Black Kinesics — Some Non-Verbal Communication Patterns in the Black Culture
• BLACK ENGLISH AND PSYCHOLINGUISTICS
• Introduction
• Classroom Correction Tests
• The Learning of Black English by Puerto Ricans in New York City
• A Sociolinguistic Consideration of the Black English of Children in Northern Florida
• White and Negro Listeners’ Reactions to Various American-English Dialects
• References for the Introductions
• Index