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160 pages • missing pub info (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780292707450
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 01 January 1983
Description
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...
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160 pages • missing pub info (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780292707450
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 01 January 1983
Description
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...