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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... open the door and let me come in. [singing stops] [laughs] Can't sing much. [brief pause in the tape]. Born in 1844. FW: What's your name? Huh? FW: What's your name? 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 INF: INF: My Wallace Quarterman.
... open the door and let me come in. [singing stops] [laughs] Can't sing much. [brief pause in the tape]. Born in 1844. FW: What's your name? Huh? FW: What's your name? 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 INF: INF: My Wallace Quarterman.
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... sing while playing the washtub base] "One foot one way, one foot the other way. Onefootallaroun'.So big that he couldn't cut a figure An' he couldn' go a half way roun'." "Ole master, run away, and set them darky free For you mus' be ...
... sing while playing the washtub base] "One foot one way, one foot the other way. Onefootallaroun'.So big that he couldn't cut a figure An' he couldn' go a half way roun'." "Ole master, run away, and set them darky free For you mus' be ...
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... sing "One Day Shall I Ever Reach Heaven and One Day Shall I Fly." An' they would sing that for about a hour. Then they, next one they'd get up an' say let's sing a song, "We Gonna Live on Milk and Honey, Way By and By." They'd, oh I can ...
... sing "One Day Shall I Ever Reach Heaven and One Day Shall I Fly." An' they would sing that for about a hour. Then they, next one they'd get up an' say let's sing a song, "We Gonna Live on Milk and Honey, Way By and By." They'd, oh I can ...
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... sing something ol, I, I, [laughs]. FW: Just sing along. [Becomes excited, slapping noise in background] I feel, I feel the spirit now, but I can't, I got to keep quiet. Now you, do you ever hear this fellow that comes over the radio? I ...
... sing something ol, I, I, [laughs]. FW: Just sing along. [Becomes excited, slapping noise in background] I feel, I feel the spirit now, but I can't, I got to keep quiet. Now you, do you ever hear this fellow that comes over the radio? I ...
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... sing. Well ol' people use' to say, "Wonder If I Shall Ever Reach Heaven or Wonder Shall I Fly." I, I use to could sing it. I can sing, well sometimes I hear the spirit, you know an' I may get to singing something again someday. People ...
... sing. Well ol' people use' to say, "Wonder If I Shall Ever Reach Heaven or Wonder Shall I Fly." I, I use to could sing it. I can sing, well sometimes I hear the spirit, you know an' I may get to singing something again someday. People ...
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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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