Language in the inner city; studies in the black English vernacular / William Labov.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Labov, William.

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

University of Pennsylvania Press conduct and communication series ; 3.

Pennsylvania paperbacks ; 51.

Conduct and communication ; 3

Pennsylvania Paperback ; 51

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black English.

African Americans--Languages.

African Americans.

Multicultural education--United States.

Multicultural education.

Urban dialects.

United States.

Urban dialects--United States.

Americanisms.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxiv pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 412 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [1972]

Contents:

Part I. The Structure of the Black English Vernacular. Some Sources of Reading Problems for Speakers of the Black English Vernacular; Is the Black English Vernacular a Separate System?; Contraction, Deletion, and Inherent Variability of the English Copula; Negative Attraction and Negative Concord

Part II. The Vernacular in Its Social Setting. The Logic of Nonstandard English; The Relation of Reading Failure to Peer-Group Status; The Linguistic Consequences of Being a Lame

Part III. The Uses of the Black English Vernacular. Rules for Ritual Insults; The Transformation of Experience in Narrative Syntax.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-405) and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy is paperbound edition with additional series Pennsylvania paperback.

ISBN:

0812276582

OCLC:

637515