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American Earlier Black English: Morphological and Syntactic Variables

American Earlier Black English: Morphological and Syntactic Variables capacity "to transmit, disseminate, and render visible 'black' mean­ ings, precisely because of, and not in spite of, its industrial forms of production, distribution, and consumption" (71-72). Schneider, Edgar W. American Earlier Black English: Morphological and Syntadic Vari­ ables. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1989. Black English has long been of scholarly interest to linguists. In fact, it is specifically the theorizing about Black English-theorizing that emerged as a product of the black revolution of the sixties and seventies-that has been responsible for the rapid development of the discipline of sociolinguistics ( 1 ). The only problem with much of what is written about Black English, according to Schneider, is that it is unobjective, tainted by emotional underpinnings of either racism or black nationalism (8). In this respect, Schneider disagrees with the extremes of scholars who want to explain the linguistic differences of blacks by such physical characteristics as "thick lips," or with those whose black pride insists on defining black dialect as its own bona fide language, or with those who want to make Black English the primary language of all black people ( 11 ). Schneider also notes that the name given the subject matter-Negro dialect, Ghettoese, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Black Sacred Music Duke University Press

American Earlier Black English: Morphological and Syntactic Variables

Schneider, Edgar W.
Black Sacred Music , Volume 4 (2) – Sep 1, 1990
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Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press
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1043-9455
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capacity "to transmit, disseminate, and render visible 'black' mean­ ings, precisely because of, and not in spite of, its industrial forms of production, distribution, and consumption" (71-72). Schneider, Edgar W. American Earlier Black English: Morphological and Syntadic Vari­ ables. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1989. Black English has long been of scholarly interest to linguists. In fact, it is specifically the theorizing about Black English-theorizing that emerged as a product of the black revolution of the sixties and seventies-that has been responsible for the rapid development of the discipline of sociolinguistics ( 1 ). The only problem with much of what is written about Black English, according to Schneider, is that it is unobjective, tainted by emotional underpinnings of either racism or black nationalism (8). In this respect, Schneider disagrees with the extremes of scholars who want to explain the linguistic differences of blacks by such physical characteristics as "thick lips," or with those whose black pride insists on defining black dialect as its own bona fide language, or with those who want to make Black English the primary language of all black people ( 11 ). Schneider also notes that the name given the subject matter-Negro dialect, Ghettoese,

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