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The Emergence of Black English : text and commentary

Title: The Emergence of Black English : text and commentary / edited by Guy Bailey, Natalie Maynor, and Patricia Cukor-Avila.
Publication: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1991.

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Description

x, 352 p.; 22 cm.

Series Statement

Creole language library ; v. 8

Subject

Black English > History
English language > United States > History
Creole dialects, English > United States > History
Enslaved persons > United States > Language > History
African Americans > Language > History
Black English > Texts
Americanisms

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Texts: Wallace Quarterman. Fountain Hughes. Uncle Billy McCrea. Uncle Bob Ledbetter. Joe McDonald and woman. Isom Moseley. Alice Gaston. Laura Smalley. Harriet Smith. Celia Black. Charlie Smith -- Commentary: Speaking of slavery / Paul D. Escott. Slave narratives, slave culture, and the slave experience / Joe Graham. Songs, sermons, and life stories / Jeutonne P. Brewer. The linguistic value of the ex-slave recordings / Michael Montgomery. Representativeness and reliability of the ex-slave materials, with special reference to Wallace Quarterman's recording and transcript / John R. Rickford. Is Gullah decreolizing? / Salikoko S. Mufwene. The Atlantic creoles and the language of the ex-slave recordings / John Holm. Liberian settler English and the ex-slave recordings / John Victor Singler. There's no tense like the present / Shana Poplack and Sali Tagliamonte.

Call Number

JFD 91-11267

ISBN

1556191618 (alkaline)

LCCN

91013319

OCLC

23462498
NYPG91-B73186

Title

The Emergence of Black English : text and commentary / edited by Guy Bailey, Natalie Maynor, and Patricia Cukor-Avila.

Imprint

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1991.

Series

Creole language library ; v. 8

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Bailey, Guy, 1950-

Maynor, Natalie.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia.

Research Call Number

JFD 91-11267

Sc D 97-2740

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