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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Labov, William. Language in the inner city. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press [c1972] (OCoLC)582516435 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
William Labov |
| ISBN: | 0812276582 9780812276589 |
| OCLC Number: | 637515 |
| Description: | xxiv, 412 p. illus. 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Some sources of reading problems for speakers of the Black English vernacular -- Is the Black English vernacular a separate system? -- Contraction, deletion, and inherent variability of the English copula -- Negative attraction and negative concord -- The logic of nonstandard English -- The relation of reading failure to peer-group status -- The linguistic consequences of being a lame -- Rules for ritual results -- The transformation of experience in narrative syntax. |
| Series Title: | Conduct and communication, 3. |
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Related Subjects:(16)
- Black English.
- African Americans -- Languages.
- Multicultural education -- United States.
- Urban dialects -- United States.
- Americanisms.
- Educación intercultural
- Inglés -- Dialectos -- EE.UU.
- Noirs -- Langage.
- Anglais (Langue) -- États-Unis -- Dialectes.
- Éducation interculturelle.
- Amerikaans.
- Dialecten.
- Grammatica.
- Sociolinguïstiek.
- Discourse analysis.
- Black English

