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Reed, Carroll E. – 1977
This book examines dialect variations in the United States. Chapter topics include an introduction to dialect study, colonial English, eastern settlement, eastern words, eastern pronunciation, eastern grammar, the westward movement, sectional atlas studies (the Great Lakes, the Upper Middle West, Texas, Colorado and other Rocky Mountain areas,…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Dialect Studies, Language Patterns, Language Styles
Major, Clarence – 1970
The speech habits of the most oppressed --and the largest-- segment of the black population in the United States did not spring solely from an inability to handle acceptable forms of spoken English, nor mainly from the limitations caused by the particular stock of words known to the speaker. Black slang stems from a somewhat disseminated rejection…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Dictionaries, Language Patterns, Language Role
Download full textLinn, Michael D. – 1973
Teachers of culturally different students should not ridicule or verbally abuse their students, but should try to show them how the characteristics of formal English differ from urban Black English. They must be able to explain the appropriateness of standard English usage in certain situations, while they still maintain respect for the students'…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Cultural Influences, English Instruction, Language Classification
