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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 427.97308996
EAN num: 9781556191633
ISBN number: 1556191634
Label: John Benjamins Publishing Co
Manufacturer: John Benjamins Publishing Co
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 162
Printing Date: May 01, 1997
Publishing house: John Benjamins Publishing Co
Sale Popularity Level: 3449148
Studio: John Benjamins Publishing Co
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Debate over the evolution of Black English Vernacular (BEV) has permeated Afro-American studies, creole linguistics, dialectology and sociolinguistics for a quarter of a century with little sign of a satisfactory resolution, primarily because evidence that bears directly on the earlier stages of BEV is sparse. This book brings together 11 transcripts of mechanical recordings of interviews with former slaves born well over a century ago. It attempts to make this crucial source of data as widely known as possible and to explore its importance for the study of BEV in view of various problems of textual composition and interpretation. It does so by providing tra nscripts of most of the contents, and by publishing a group of interpretive essays, which examine the data in the light of other relevant historical, cultural, social and linguistic evidence and which provide contexts for interpretation and analysis. In these essays a group of diverse scholars on BEV analyze the 'same' texts for the very first time; the lack of consensus that emerges may seem surprising, but in fact highlights some of the basic problems of textual composition and interpretation and of scholarly dispositions that underlie the study of BEV. The papers raise questions about the evolution of BEV, about its relationship to other varieties, and, most important, about the construction and interpretation of linguistic texts.
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