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American Speech, Vol. 77, No. 3, Fall 2002 Copyright © 2002 by the American Dialect Society Witherspoon remarked that âThere is a greater difference in dialect between one county and another in Britain, than there is between one state and another in Americaâ (cited by Bailey 1991, 130). In any social science the use of terminology is critical, so it is important to get our terms right. Standard language and vernacular are such loaded terms that it is important that we should agree on their deï¬nitions both for our own work and also for communication with the world outside of linguistics. The furor over the Ebonics controversy is a cautionary tale of the difï¬culties that linguists can run into in trying to make clear their distinctions to a lay public that is confused to begin with. I believe that one of the sources for confusion in the debate, even to the extent that it was conducted on rational grounds, lay in the uncertainty that some linguists displayed in connection with the notion of dialect. It is the deï¬nition of dialect that I would like to examine now. There are so many deï¬nitions of the term dialect that it
American Speech: A Quarterly of Linguistic Usage – Duke University Press
Published: Sep 1, 2002
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