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The Death of Black English
Ronald R. Butters
其他書名
Divergence and Convergence in Black and White Vernaculars
出版P. Lang, 1989
主題Foreign Language Study / English as a Second LanguageLanguage Arts & Disciplines / GeneralLiterary Criticism / General
ISBN36314205609783631420560
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=OehZAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋For some time, a view has prevailed among American sociolinguists that Black and White dialects in the United States, following a general trend towards assimilation of ethnic varieties, have been converging, becoming more alike. Recently, several American scholars have put forth the opposite hypothesis of linguistic divergence. This book examines in critical detail a variety of evidence that bears upon the divergence hypothesis, and it surveys as well aspects of the political implications of the construct. The author concludes that the evidence is far from sufficient to support a strong divergence theory. If Black English turns out to be an exception to the supposed prevailing tendency of minority speech varieties to assimilate to more mainstream varieties, it is only because the relationship seems to be essentially static: Black and White vernaculars in the United States appear to be diverging with respect to some features - major and minor - but converging with respect to others.