The Emergence of Black English: Text and commentaryGuy Bailey, Natalie Maynor, Patricia Cukor-Avila John Benjamins Publishing, 10 Apr 1991 - 352 halaman Debate over the evolution of Black English Vernacular (BEV) has permeated Afro-American studies, creole linguistics, dialectology, and sociolinguistics for a quarter of a century with little sign of a satisfactory resolution, primarily because evidence that bears directly on the earlier stages of BEV is sparse. This book brings together 11 transcripts of mechanical recordings of interviews with former slaves born well over a century ago. It attempts to make this crucial source of data as widely known as possible and to explore its importance for the study of Black English Vernacular in view of various problems of textual composition and interpretation. It does so by providing a complete description of the contents of the recordings, by providing transcripts of most of the contents, and by publishing a group of interpretive essays which examine the data in the light of other relevant historical, cultural, social, and linguistic evidence and which provide contexts for interpretation and analysis. In these essays a group of diverse scholars on BEV analyze the same texts for the first time; the lack of consensus that emerges may seem surprising, but in fact highlights some of the basic problems of textual composition and interpretation and of scholarly dispositions that underlie the study of BEV. The papers raise crucial questions about the evolution of BEV, about its relationship to other varieties, and, most important, about the construction and interpretation of linguistic texts. |
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... Escott Slave Narratives, Slave Culture, and the Slave Experience Joe Graham Songs, Sermons, and Life Stories: The Legacy of the Ex-Slave Narratives Jeutonne P. Brewer The Linguistic Value of the Ex-Slave Recordings Michael Montgomery ...
... Escott Slave Narratives, Slave Culture, and the Slave Experience Joe Graham Songs, Sermons, and Life Stories: The Legacy of the Ex-Slave Narratives Jeutonne P. Brewer The Linguistic Value of the Ex-Slave Recordings Michael Montgomery ...
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... Escott (this volume), in perhaps the best treatment of this problem, points out, it seems clear that these people have much more to say than they feel they can; nevertheless, they are remarkably frank at times. Although linguists often ...
... Escott (this volume), in perhaps the best treatment of this problem, points out, it seems clear that these people have much more to say than they feel they can; nevertheless, they are remarkably frank at times. Although linguists often ...
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... Escott notes that: Whites have long believed that class lines were very strong among the slaves and that the privileged house servants identified with their aristocratic masters rather than with the common field hands. Extensive ...
... Escott notes that: Whites have long believed that class lines were very strong among the slaves and that the privileged house servants identified with their aristocratic masters rather than with the common field hands. Extensive ...
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... Escott also includes a useful discussion of the fieldwork). First, the early recording equipment was unwieldy and limited in its capacity. The fieldworkers had to pay constant attention to the equipment, and this must have hindered ...
... Escott also includes a useful discussion of the fieldwork). First, the early recording equipment was unwieldy and limited in its capacity. The fieldworkers had to pay constant attention to the equipment, and this must have hindered ...
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... (Escott) and cultural (Graham) contexts in which earlier BEV existed; the problems of field work among blacks, especially by white fieldworkers, in the pre-World War II South (Brewer); the relationship between these texts and the data in ...
... (Escott) and cultural (Graham) contexts in which earlier BEV existed; the problems of field work among blacks, especially by white fieldworkers, in the pre-World War II South (Brewer); the relationship between these texts and the data in ...
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The Historical Value Of the Recordings With Former Slaves | 123 |
Slave Narratives Slave Culture and the Slave Experience | 133 |
The Legacy of the ExSlave Narratives | 155 |
The Linguistic Value of the ExSlave Recordings | 173 |
Representativeness and Reliability of the ExSlave Narrative Materials With Special Reference to Wallace Quartermans Recording and Transcript | 191 |
Is Gullah Decreolizing? A Comparison of a Speech Sample of the 1930s With a Sample of the 1980s | 213 |
The Atlantic Creoles and the Language of the ExSlave Recordings | 231 |
A Comparative Study | 249 |
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Harriet Smith | 79 |
Celia Black | 99 |
Charlie Smith | 107 |
COMMENTARY | 121 |
Verbal s Inflection in Early Black English | 275 |
APPENDIX | 327 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 331 |
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS | 351 |
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