UID:
almafu_9959327048902883
Format:
1 online resource (xv, 237 pages) :
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maps
ISBN:
9780470690178
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0470690178
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9780470779903
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047077990X
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1281319686
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9781281319685
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9780631230878
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0631230874
Series Statement:
Language in society ; 31
Content:
This book focuses on one of the most persistent and controversial questions in modern sociolinguistics: the past and present development of African American Vernacular English (AAVE). Despite intense scrutiny of the historical and current development of AAVE, a number of issues remain unresolved. Most prominent among these is the development of African American English during the antebellum period and the trajectory of change in twentieth-century AAVE. This book addresses both of these issues by examining an unparalleled sociolinguistic situation involving a long-standing, isolated, biracial community situated in a distinctive dialect region of coastal North Carolina. This unique environment provides a venue for dealing with questions of localized dialect accommodation and ethnolinguistic distinctiveness in earlier African American English. The conclusions drawn challenge the Creolist, Anglicist, and neo-Anglicist positions with respect to the history of AAVE and offer insights into the development of African American speech in the twentieth century.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Wolfram, Walt, 1941- Development of African American English. Oxford, U.K. ; Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, 2002 ISBN 0631230866
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780631230861
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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History.
DOI:
10.1002/9780470690178
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470690178
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470690178
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470690178
