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Peer reviewedWolfram, Walt – Language, 1990
Reviews two books, "American Earlier Black English," by Edgar W. Schneider, and "The Death of Black English," by Ronald Butters, that capture the essence of the renewed controversy on the reemergence of the historical issue and a new dispute over the current development of Vernacular Black English. (36 references) (JL)
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Diachronic Linguistics, Linguistic Theory, Sociolinguistics
Peer reviewedMcWhorter, John H. – Language, 1998
Outlines three features that render creoles synchronically distinguishable from other languages, all three clear results of a break in transmission followed by a development period too brief for the traits to be undone as they have been in older languages. Shows that an expanded data set reveals flaws in the socio-historical argumentation behind…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Creoles, Diachronic Linguistics, Language Classification
Peer reviewedPike, Kenneth L. – Language, 1973
Parts of this paper were presented at the annual meeting of the Modern Language Association, New York, N.Y., December 30, 1970, under the title Toward the Formalization of Rudeness in Conversation.'' (VM)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, English, Linguistic Theory
Peer reviewedLakoff, Robin – Language, 1972
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, English, Japanese, Language
