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Language in the inner city; studies in the Black English vernacular.

Author: William Labov
Publisher: Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press [©1972]
Series: Conduct and communication, 3.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Labov, William.
Language in the inner city.
Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press [c1972]
(OCoLC)582516435
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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