Black Street Speech: Its History, Structure, and Survival

by John Baugh

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292707436
• ISBN13: 9780292707436
• Release Date: December 1983
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.