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Issues in the Analysis of Nonstandard Negro English: A Review of J. L. Dillard's Black English: its History and Usage in the United States

Issues in the Analysis of Nonstandard Negro English: A Review of J. L. Dillard's Black English:... Issues in the of Nonstandard A Review of J. L. Analysis Negro English: and States Dillard’s Black Its in the United English: History Usage Sarah G. D’Eloia by Black House: is a for en- I. English (Random 1972) plea linguistically the attitudes. Since it is addressed to primarily general educator, lightened covers familiar to the cultural it concepts relativism, linguis- many linguist: the and of a tic relativism, assumptions procedures language history. Specifi- Dillard wishes to counter the notion that &dquo;Black lan- cally, English&dquo; (or any &dquo; is or or and to &dquo;illogical&dquo; grammatically conceptually &dquo;deficient, give guage) &dquo;Black English&dquo; nationalistically respectable history. Dillard that the differences between &dquo;Black and other dia- argues English&dquo; of and lects American result from the influence of African English directly pid- that Blacks to the United and that an African cre- gin languages brought States, ole or African substratum is the kind of historical hypothesis only explanation which can a basis for for the one &dquo;provide linguistic dignity Negro... the only consistent with Black With these he de- self-respect.&dquo; (10-11)1 objectives, scribes several historical for &dquo;Black out similarities stages English,&dquo; pointing to and from other African and that historical dif- divergenees creoles, argues http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of English Linguistics SAGE

Issues in the Analysis of Nonstandard Negro English: A Review of J. L. Dillard's Black English: its History and Usage in the United States

D'Eloia, Sarah G.
Journal of English Linguistics , Volume 7 (1): 17 – Mar 1, 1973
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Issues in the of Nonstandard A Review of J. L. Analysis Negro English: and States Dillard’s Black Its in the United English: History Usage Sarah G. D’Eloia by Black House: is a for en- I. English (Random 1972) plea linguistically the attitudes. Since it is addressed to primarily general educator, lightened covers familiar to the cultural it concepts relativism, linguis- many linguist: the and of a tic relativism, assumptions procedures language history. Specifi- Dillard wishes to counter the notion that &dquo;Black lan- cally, English&dquo; (or any &dquo; is or or and to &dquo;illogical&dquo; grammatically conceptually &dquo;deficient, give guage) &dquo;Black English&dquo; nationalistically respectable history. Dillard that the differences between &dquo;Black and other dia- argues English&dquo; of and lects American result from the influence of African English directly pid- that Blacks to the United and that an African cre- gin languages brought States, ole or African substratum is the kind of historical hypothesis only explanation which can a basis for for the one &dquo;provide linguistic dignity Negro... the only consistent with Black With these he de- self-respect.&dquo; (10-11)1 objectives, scribes several historical for &dquo;Black out similarities stages English,&dquo; pointing to and from other African and that historical dif- divergenees creoles, argues

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Published: Mar 1, 1973

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