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DeStefano, Johanna S. – Florida FL Reporter, 1971
Descriptors: Attitudes, Black Community, Black Dialects, Blacks
Baratz, Joan C. – Florida FL Reporter, 1971
Paper read at the American Educational Research Association Convention in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1970. Research supported by a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health. (DS)
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Cultural Differences, English, Language Instruction
Peer reviewedCummings, Alban; And Others – Journal of Black Studies, 1983
Immigrant children from the Caribbean are disadvantaged in American urban schools because they have to adjust to new situations; do not possess complex vocabularies; are not readily understood and have difficulty understanding others; come from academically deficient home backgrounds; and must balance conflicting home and school cultures.…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Blacks, Cultural Differences, Educationally Disadvantaged
Download full textTarone, Elaine E. – 1972
Intonation patterns of Black English were studied and compared with those occurring in White English and formal Black English. It was found that: (1) the Black English corpus was characterized by a wider pitch range, extending into higher pitch levels than either the White vernacular or the formal Black English of the adult information; (2) a…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Cultural Differences, Data Analysis, English
Holt, Grace Sims – Florida FL Reporter, 1971
Expanded version of a paper presented at the TESOL (Teaching of English as a Second Language) Convention in New Orleans, Louisiana, on March 6, 1971. (DS)
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Black Attitudes, Black Community, Black Culture
Labov, William – 1968
This report presents some of the findings of several years research on the relations between the non-standard English used by Negro speakers in various urban ghetto areas (NNE) and standard English (SE). The immediate subject is the status of the copula and auxiliary "be" in NNE. The approach to the problem combines the methods of…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Cultural Context, Cultural Differences, English
Wolfram, Walter A; Fasold, Ralph W. – 1968
Some differences between Standard English (SE) and "Black English" (BE) have important consequences in communication of messages. The authors cite as an example the "habitual" function of the finite verb "be" which has no equivalent in SE. They point out that "simplification" of the English of the Bible may result in a "translation" which is…
Descriptors: Biblical Literature, Black Community, Black Culture, Black Dialects
Kochman, Thomas – 1979
This paper draws from a number of sources, from Muhammad Ali to TV commercials, to demonstrate the quite different conceptions that black and white Americans have of the meaning of boasting and bragging. For blacks, boasting and bragging are two distinct ways of speaking and communication. Boasting is a joking, playful verbal bahavior, not to be…
Descriptors: Black Culture, Black Dialects, Blacks, Cross Cultural Training
Baratz, Joan C., Ed.; Shuy, Roger W., Ed. – 1969
This fourth book in the Urban Language Series is concerned with the relationship of language to reading. Literacy must be based on the language the child actually uses. In the case of ghetto children, materials in their dialect must be prepared so that their task of associating sounds and words with written symbols is not complicated by lack of…
Descriptors: Black Attitudes, Black Culture, Black Dialects, Black Youth
