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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History Texts Textes |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Emergence of Black English. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1991 (DLC) 91013319 (OCoLC)23462498 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Guy Bailey; Natalie Maynor; Patricia Cukor-Avila |
ISBN: | 9789027277831 9027277834 1283328194 9781283328197 9786613328199 6613328197 |
OCLC Number: | 772233169 |
Language Note: | English. |
Reproduction Notes: | Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
Description: | 1 online resource (x, 352 pages) : illustrations |
Details: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
Contents: | Speaking of slavery: the historical value of the recordings with slaves / Paul D. Escott -- Slave narratives, slave culture, and the slave experience / Joe Graham -- Song, sermons, and life stories: the legacy of the ex-slave narratives / Jeutonne P. Brewer -- The linguistic value of the ex-slave recordings / Michael Montgomery -- Representativeness and reliability of the ex-slave materials, with special reference to Wallace Quarterman's recording and transcript / John R. Rickford -- Is Gullah decreolizing? a comparison of a speech sample of the 1930s with a sample of the 1980s / Salikoko S. Mufwene -- The Atlantic Creoles and the language of the ex-slave recordings / John Holm -- Liberian settler English and the ex-slave recordings: a comparative study / John Victor Singler -- There's no tense like the present: verbal -S inflection in early black English / Shana Poplack, Sali Tagliamonte. |
Series Title: | Creole language library, v. 8. |
Responsibility: | edited by Guy Bailey, Natalie Maynor, and Patricia Cukor-Avila. |
Abstract:
Eleven transcripts of mechanical recordings of interviews with former slaves born well 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.
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