The emergence of black English text and commentary
Contains 11 transcripts of mechanical recordings of interviews with former slaves born over a century ago. The book attempts to make this source of data as widely known as possible and to explore its importance for the study of BEV in view of problems of textual composition and interpretation.
Print Book, English, 1991
John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1991
History
x, 352 p. ill. 22 cm
9781556191619, 9789027252289, 9781556191633, 9789027252302, 1556191618, 9027252289, 1556191634, 9027252300
1087873644
1. Preface; 2. Introduction; 3. 1. Texts; 4. 2. Commentary; 5. Speaking of Slavery: The Historical Value of the Recordings with Former Slaves (by Escott, Paul D.); 6. Slave Narratives, Slave Culture, and the Slave Experience (by Graham, Joe); 7. Songs, Sermons, and Life Stories: The Legacy of the Ex-Slave Narratives (by Brewer, Jeutonne P.); 8. The Linguistic Value of the Ex-Slave Recordings (by Montgomery, Michael); 9. Representativeness and Reliability of the Ex-Slave Materials, With Special Reference to Wallace Quarterman's Recording and Transcript (by Rickford, John R.); 10. Is Gullah Decreolizing? A Comparison of a Speech Sample of the 1930s with a Sample of the 1980s (by Mufwene, Salikoko S.); 11. The Atlantic Creoles and the Language of the Ex-Slave Recordings (by Holm, John); 12. Liberian Settler English and the Ex-Slave Recordings: A Comprative Study (by Singler, John Victor); 13. There's No Tense Like the Present: Verbal - S Inflection in Early Black English (by Poplack, Shana); 14. Appendix; 15. Bibliography; 16. List of Contributors