Language in the Inner City
Subtitle: Studies in the Black English Vernacular
Publisher: Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
Published: June 1973
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9780812276589
Subjects: Black English; Languages; Multicultural education; African Americans; United States
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).