Black Street Speech - Baugh, John

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Résumé :

• Preface
• 1. Introduction: Street Speech as a Social Dialect
• 2. The Birth of Black Street Speech
• 3. Street Speech and Formal Speech: Linguistic Survival in Black and White Societies
• 4. The Scholar and the Street: Collecting the Data
• 5. Specialized Lexical Marking and Alternation
  • Code Switching versus Style Shifting
  • Topic-Related Shifting
  • Syllable Contraction and Expansion
  • Variable Forestressing of Bisyllabic Words
  • Hypercorrection
  • Lexical Summary
• 6. Unique Grammatical Usage
  • Locating Suitable Examples
  • Syntactic Constructions and Their Functions
  • Grammatical Summary
• 7. Phonological Variation
  • Suffix /-s/ Variation
  • Consonant Cluster Reduction
  • Is and Are Variation
  • Postvocalic /r/ Variation
  • Summary of Phonological and Morphological Variation
• 8. Educational Insights
• 9. Impediments to Employability
• 10. Dynamic Black Speech: A Nonideal Linguistic State
• Bibliography
• Index
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Sommaire:
In the minds of many, black street speech-the urban dialect of black Americans-bespeaks illiteracy, poverty, and ignorance. John Baugh challenges those prejudices in this brilliant new inquiry into the history, linguistic structure, and survival within white society of black street speech. In doing so, he successfully integrates a scholarly respect for black English with a humanistic approach to language differences that weds rigor of research with a keen sense of social responsibility. Baugh's is the first book on black English that is based on a long-term study of adult speakers. Beginning in 1972, black men and women in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Chicago, Austin, and Houston were repeatedly interviewed, in varied social settings, in order to determine the nature of their linguistic styles and the social circumstances where subtle changes in their speech appear. Baugh's work uncovered a far wider breadth of speaking styles among black Americans than among standard English speakers. Having detailed his findings, he explores their serious implications for the employability and education of black Americans. Black Street Speech is a work of enduring importance for educators, linguists, sociologists, scholars of black and urban studies, and all concerned with black English and its social consequences. ...