Multidialects: The Student's Right to His Own Language.

Cannon, Garland

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Publication Date: 1973

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Multidialects: The Student's Right to His Own Language

Cannon, Garland

College Composition and Communication, 24, 5, 382-85, Dec 73

Considers four linguistic assumptions which bear on any multidialectal teaching situation: There is no single monolithic Standard English in the United States, a given native speaker is not structurally or linguistically deficient, differences among dialects are superficial, and the matter of dialects is one of social status. (RB)

Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Higher Education, Language Instruction, Linguistic Competence, Nonstandard Dialects, Social Dialects, Social Status, Status Need

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