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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
