Language in the Inner City
Subtitle: Studies in the Black English Vernacular (Conduct & Communication Ser)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: September 1, 1973
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9780812210514
Subjects: Dialectology; Multicultural Education; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; English; Language; USA; Trees; General; Trees & Forests - General; Language Arts & Disciplines / General; Language arts; Nature : Trees & Forests - General; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Linguistics
First sentence: IN the past ten years, a number of linguists have turned to the study of the nonstandard English spoken by black people in the inner city: the black English vernacular (BEV).