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Folb, Edith – Human Behavior, 1973
A description and analysis of the various functions of black language as an integral part of the collective experience and identity of American blacks. (EH)
Descriptors: Black Culture, Black Dialects, Black Studies, Language Patterns
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Light, Richard L. – English Record, 1971
Analyzes fourteen conversations generated by five black children, ages six to eleven, from a lower socioeconomic group in Washington, D. C., which were recorded and transcribed in various settings involving adults of different races as interviewers. (JM)
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Students, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary School Students
Lederman, Marie Jean – Coll Composition Commun, 1969
Descriptors: College English, Comparative Analysis, English, Higher Education
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Kuo, Eddie C. Y. – Anthropological Linguistics, 1979
A communicativity index (Index I) is described that measures the potential communication function performed by a given language in a designated communication situation. Significant sociolinguistic contrasts between the language situations of West Malaysia and Singapore are revealed by applying this index. (PMJ)
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Language Patterns, Language Research, Language Usage
Gantt, Walter – 1977
Based on transcribed conversations with black children in kindergarten and the intermediate grades, a study was devised to determine whether black urban children from lower socioeconomic areas speak a systematic, consistent form of nonstandard English, and if so, to provide a syntactical analysis of the dialect of nonstandard speakers. Speech…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Youth, Elementary Education, Kindergarten Children