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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Halaman v
... Laura Smalley Harriet Smith Celia Black Charlie Smith 23 29 41 45 51 55 59 61 79 99 107 vi PART Π: COMMENTARY Speaking of Slavery: The Historical Value Table of contents.
... Laura Smalley Harriet Smith Celia Black Charlie Smith 23 29 41 45 51 55 59 61 79 99 107 vi PART Π: COMMENTARY Speaking of Slavery: The Historical Value Table of contents.
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... Laura Smalley interview with interviews collected by Donna Christian for A Survey and Collection of American English Dialect Recordings at CAL). Moreover, while most of the interviewers were white, several were black, including Zora ...
... Laura Smalley interview with interviews collected by Donna Christian for A Survey and Collection of American English Dialect Recordings at CAL). Moreover, while most of the interviewers were white, several were black, including Zora ...
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... Laura Smalley interview) are those with former field hands. If there actually were significant differences between the speech of field hands and house servants, we might expect to see at least some evidence of it in these interviews ...
... Laura Smalley interview) are those with former field hands. If there actually were significant differences between the speech of field hands and house servants, we might expect to see at least some evidence of it in these interviews ...
Halaman 60
... t fin' no fault. Give me enough food to eat, give me clothes to wear. They been treating me jus' as nice as they can. I can't fin' no fault. FW: Pretty, pretty happy then. Yes sir. 10 15 20 25 INF: INF: Laura Smalley Hempstead, TX 60 ...
... t fin' no fault. Give me enough food to eat, give me clothes to wear. They been treating me jus' as nice as they can. I can't fin' no fault. FW: Pretty, pretty happy then. Yes sir. 10 15 20 25 INF: INF: Laura Smalley Hempstead, TX 60 ...
Halaman 61
... scal' them out for the children. I didn't see them scal' but that what they told me, they scal' them out you know, for children. An' uh, young children eat out of that, 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 INF: INF: FW2: Laura Smalley.
... scal' them out for the children. I didn't see them scal' but that what they told me, they scal' them out you know, for children. An' uh, young children eat out of that, 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 INF: INF: FW2: Laura Smalley.
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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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