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I Can Look Through Muddy Water
Ulrich Miethaner
其他書名
Analyzing Earlier African American English in Blues Lyrics (BLUR)
出版Peter Lang, 2005
主題Foreign Language Study / English as a Second LanguageLanguage Arts & Disciplines / GeneralLanguage Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / GeneralLanguage Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Historical & ComparativeLanguage Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / SociolinguisticsLanguage Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / SemanticsMusic / GeneralMusic / Genres & Styles / BluesMusic / Instruction & Study / TheorySocial Science / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies
ISBN36315405749783631540572
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=VcEdAQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋With its 1.5 million words BLUR is the biggest electronic corpus of nonstandard English. The present study describes the stages in the design, the compilation, and the editing of BLUR and attempts to gauge its linguistic profit. This is done both from a theoretical perspective - blues poetry vs. natural speech, representativeness, validity - and from an analytical perspective in particular qualitative, quantitative, and comparative analyses of morphological, morphosyntactic, and syntactic features. The findings indicate that BLUR provides an outstandingly rich and reliable documentation of the vernaculars spoken by African Americans between the Civil War and World War II. The more than 1,000 illustrative examples presented throughout this study attest to the correctness of this statement.