You know my steez
Subtitle: an ethnographic and sociolinguistic study of styleshifting in a Black American speech community
By: H. Samy Alim.
Contributors: American Dialect Society.
Series: Publication of the American Dialect Society ;; no. 89
Publisher: Duke University Press for the American Dialect Society
Published: 2004
Place of publication: [Durham, N.C.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
Subjects: African American teenagers -- Language -- Case studies.; English language -- Spoken English -- United States -- Case studies.; English language -- Social aspects -- United States -- Case studies.; English language -- Variation -- United States -- Case studies.; African Americans -- Languages -- Case studies.; Black English -- California -- Case studies.; Americanisms -- California -- Case studies.
Genres: Case studies.
Other titles: American speech.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-309).
"Annual supplement to American Speech."
Table of contents: value: Introduction : you know my steez; value: Designing sociolinguistic research on speech style; value: How the other half speaks : ethnosensitivity and the shifting roles of the researcher; value: This is corporate America takin over : schooling, survival, and the sociohistorical context of life in the occupied territories; value: We some baaaddddd styleshifters : the copula in stylistic variation; value: Our steelo switch up : third-person singular -s, possessive -s, and plural -s absence; value: We be word sorcerers : invariant be and the equative copula in BL; value: It takes two to make a thing go riiiiight : examining interaction in the coconstruction of style; value: The gentrification of speech and speakers : Black language in White public space.