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Cursing in America [[electronic resource] ] : a psycholinguistic study of dirty language in the courts, in the movies, in the schoolyards and on the streets / / by Timothy Jay
| Cursing in America [[electronic resource] ] : a psycholinguistic study of dirty language in the courts, in the movies, in the schoolyards and on the streets / / by Timothy Jay |
| Autore | Jay Timothy |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1992 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (287 p.) |
| Disciplina | 401/.9/0973 |
| Soggetto topico |
English language - Obscene words - Psychological aspects - United States
Blessing and cursing - Psychological aspects - United States Words, Obscene - Psychological aspects - United States English language - United States - Obscene words Americanisms |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-280-49738-6
9786613592613 90-272-7405-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
CURSING IN AMERICA; Title page; Copyright page; Acknowledgments; Table of Contents; Detailed Table of Contents; Chapter 1. What Are ""Dirty"" Words?; Cursing; Profanity; Blasphemy; Taboo; Obscenity; Vulgarity; Slang; Epithets; Insults and slurs; Scatology; What Is the Value of Classification?; Connotative and Denotative Usage; Colorful Metaphors; Context is critical; Time perspective; Summary; Chapter 2. When Children Use Dirty Words; Language Development; The Language of Infancy (Birth to Two Years); Anger and Dirty Words in Infancy; The Origins of Humor; Pre-School Humor.
Some Final Thoughts About InfantsThe Language of Childhood (Two to Eleven Years); Childhood Humor; Elementary School Humor.; Childhood Name Calling and Insulting; Object Naming; Childhood Story Telling; From Childhood to Adolescence: Final Thoughts; Two General Issues of Sex Talk and Language at School; The ""Etiquette"" of Dirty Words and Sex Talk; Conclusions About Sex Talk; The Issue of Dirty Language at School; The Emergence of an Obscene Lexicon; Field Study One; Field Study Two: Summer Camp (Hall & Jay, 1988); Summary of Field Studies; Conclusion; Chapter 3. Anger and Dirty Words Anger Expressed Through Cursing or BlasphemyAnger Expressed Through Reference to Subnormal Thought; Anger Expressed Through Obscenity; Anger Expressed Through Reference to a Sex Organ; Anger Expressed Through Reference to Deviant Sexual Act; Anger Expressed Through Reference to Being Sexually Violated; Anger Expressed Through Reference to Social-Sexual Deviation; Anger Expressed Through Racial-Ethnic Reference; Anger Expressed Through Scatology; Anger Expressed Through Reference to Body Product or Process; Anger Expressed Through Items Associated with Body Products Anger Expressed Through References to AnimalsAnger ExpressedThroughReference to Animal Feces; The Context of Anger Expression; Social-Physical Setting; Speaker-Listener Variable; Discussion; The Etiquette of Anger Expression with Taboo Words; A Five-Stage Model of Anger; Stage 1: The Offending Event; Stage 2: The Degree of Anger; Stage 3: Attempts to Control Anger; Stage 4: Loss of Control; Stage 5: Retribution; The Value of Expressing Anger; Summary; Chapter 4. The Frequency of Dirty Word Usage; Why Word Frequency?; The Frequency Estimation Problem: Why There Are No Dirty Words Counting Oral Frequency: Almost Good EnoughA Frequency Count of Students' Colloquial English (Jay, 1980a); College Sample of Dirty Words; Elementary School Dirty Words; Discussion; Field Studies Versus Laboratory Studies; A Field Study of Offensive Speech; The Contextual Approach; Method; Results; Discussion; Laboratory Studies of Offensive Speech; Jay 1977 Ratings; Method; Results; The Massachusetts Study (1978); Word List; Method; Results; A Matter of Semantics; Of Words and Deeds; Conclusion; Chapter 5. The Offensiveness of Words: Sex and Semantics; Purpose of the Chapter Offensiveness versus Offendedness |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910461433103321 |
Jay Timothy
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| Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1992 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Cursing in America : a psycholinguistic study of dirty language in the courts, in the movies, in the schoolyards and on the streets / / Timothy Jay
| Cursing in America : a psycholinguistic study of dirty language in the courts, in the movies, in the schoolyards and on the streets / / Timothy Jay |
| Autore | Jay Timothy |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia : , : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., , 1992 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (287 pages) |
| Disciplina | 401/.9/0973 |
| Soggetto topico |
English language - Obscene words - Psychological aspects - United States
Blessing and cursing - Psychological aspects - United States Words, Obscene - Psychological aspects - United States English language - United States - Obscene words Americanisms |
| ISBN |
1-280-49738-6
9786613592613 90-272-7405-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
CURSING IN AMERICA; Title page; Copyright page; Acknowledgments; Table of Contents; Detailed Table of Contents; Chapter 1. What Are ""Dirty"" Words?; Cursing; Profanity; Blasphemy; Taboo; Obscenity; Vulgarity; Slang; Epithets; Insults and slurs; Scatology; What Is the Value of Classification?; Connotative and Denotative Usage; Colorful Metaphors; Context is critical; Time perspective; Summary; Chapter 2. When Children Use Dirty Words; Language Development; The Language of Infancy (Birth to Two Years); Anger and Dirty Words in Infancy; The Origins of Humor; Pre-School Humor.
Some Final Thoughts About Infants; The Language of Childhood (Two to Eleven Years); Childhood Humor; Elementary School Humor.; Childhood Name Calling and Insulting; Object Naming; Childhood Story Telling; From Childhood to Adolescence: Final Thoughts; Two General Issues of Sex Talk and Language at School; The ""Etiquette"" of Dirty Words and Sex Talk; Conclusions About Sex Talk; The Issue of Dirty Language at School; The Emergence of an Obscene Lexicon; Field Study One; Field Study Two: Summer Camp (Hall & Jay, 1988); Summary of Field Studies; Conclusion; Chapter 3. Anger and Dirty Words Anger Expressed Through Cursing or Blasphemy; Anger Expressed Through Reference to Subnormal Thought; Anger Expressed Through Obscenity; Anger Expressed Through Reference to a Sex Organ; Anger Expressed Through Reference to Deviant Sexual Act; Anger Expressed Through Reference to Being Sexually Violated; Anger Expressed Through Reference to Social-Sexual Deviation; Anger Expressed Through Racial-Ethnic Reference; Anger Expressed Through Scatology; Anger Expressed Through Reference to Body Product or Process; Anger Expressed Through Items Associated with Body Products Anger Expressed Through References to Animals; Anger Expressed Through Reference to Animal Feces; The Context of Anger Expression; Social-Physical Setting; Speaker-Listener Variable; Discussion; The Etiquette of Anger Expression with Taboo Words; A Five-Stage Model of Anger; Stage 1: The Offending Event; Stage 2: The Degree of Anger; Stage 3: Attempts to Control Anger; Stage 4: Loss of Control; Stage 5: Retribution; The Value of Expressing Anger; Summary; Chapter 4. The Frequency of Dirty Word Usage; Why Word Frequency?; The Frequency Estimation Problem: Why There Are No Dirty Words Counting Oral Frequency: Almost Good Enough; A Frequency Count of Students' Colloquial English (Jay, 1980a); College Sample of Dirty Words; Elementary School Dirty Words; Discussion; Field Studies Versus Laboratory Studies; A Field Study of Offensive Speech; The Contextual Approach; Method; Results; Discussion; Laboratory Studies of Offensive Speech; Jay 1977 Ratings; Method; Results; The Massachusetts Study (1978); Word List; Method; Results; A Matter of Semantics; Of Words and Deeds; Conclusion; Chapter 5. The Offensiveness of Words: Sex and Semantics; Purpose of the Chapter; Offensiveness versus Offendedness |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790203903321 |
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Jay Timothy
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| Philadelphia : , : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., , 1992 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Cursing in America : a psycholinguistic study of dirty language in the courts, in the movies, in the schoolyards and on the streets / / Timothy Jay
| Cursing in America : a psycholinguistic study of dirty language in the courts, in the movies, in the schoolyards and on the streets / / Timothy Jay |
| Autore | Jay Timothy |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia : , : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., , 1992 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (287 pages) |
| Disciplina | 401/.9/0973 |
| Soggetto topico |
English language - Obscene words - Psychological aspects - United States
Blessing and cursing - Psychological aspects - United States Words, Obscene - Psychological aspects - United States English language - United States - Obscene words Americanisms |
| ISBN |
1-280-49738-6
9786613592613 90-272-7405-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
CURSING IN AMERICA; Title page; Copyright page; Acknowledgments; Table of Contents; Detailed Table of Contents; Chapter 1. What Are ""Dirty"" Words?; Cursing; Profanity; Blasphemy; Taboo; Obscenity; Vulgarity; Slang; Epithets; Insults and slurs; Scatology; What Is the Value of Classification?; Connotative and Denotative Usage; Colorful Metaphors; Context is critical; Time perspective; Summary; Chapter 2. When Children Use Dirty Words; Language Development; The Language of Infancy (Birth to Two Years); Anger and Dirty Words in Infancy; The Origins of Humor; Pre-School Humor.
Some Final Thoughts About Infants; The Language of Childhood (Two to Eleven Years); Childhood Humor; Elementary School Humor.; Childhood Name Calling and Insulting; Object Naming; Childhood Story Telling; From Childhood to Adolescence: Final Thoughts; Two General Issues of Sex Talk and Language at School; The ""Etiquette"" of Dirty Words and Sex Talk; Conclusions About Sex Talk; The Issue of Dirty Language at School; The Emergence of an Obscene Lexicon; Field Study One; Field Study Two: Summer Camp (Hall & Jay, 1988); Summary of Field Studies; Conclusion; Chapter 3. Anger and Dirty Words Anger Expressed Through Cursing or Blasphemy; Anger Expressed Through Reference to Subnormal Thought; Anger Expressed Through Obscenity; Anger Expressed Through Reference to a Sex Organ; Anger Expressed Through Reference to Deviant Sexual Act; Anger Expressed Through Reference to Being Sexually Violated; Anger Expressed Through Reference to Social-Sexual Deviation; Anger Expressed Through Racial-Ethnic Reference; Anger Expressed Through Scatology; Anger Expressed Through Reference to Body Product or Process; Anger Expressed Through Items Associated with Body Products Anger Expressed Through References to Animals; Anger Expressed Through Reference to Animal Feces; The Context of Anger Expression; Social-Physical Setting; Speaker-Listener Variable; Discussion; The Etiquette of Anger Expression with Taboo Words; A Five-Stage Model of Anger; Stage 1: The Offending Event; Stage 2: The Degree of Anger; Stage 3: Attempts to Control Anger; Stage 4: Loss of Control; Stage 5: Retribution; The Value of Expressing Anger; Summary; Chapter 4. The Frequency of Dirty Word Usage; Why Word Frequency?; The Frequency Estimation Problem: Why There Are No Dirty Words Counting Oral Frequency: Almost Good Enough; A Frequency Count of Students' Colloquial English (Jay, 1980a); College Sample of Dirty Words; Elementary School Dirty Words; Discussion; Field Studies Versus Laboratory Studies; A Field Study of Offensive Speech; The Contextual Approach; Method; Results; Discussion; Laboratory Studies of Offensive Speech; Jay 1977 Ratings; Method; Results; The Massachusetts Study (1978); Word List; Method; Results; A Matter of Semantics; Of Words and Deeds; Conclusion; Chapter 5. The Offensiveness of Words: Sex and Semantics; Purpose of the Chapter; Offensiveness versus Offendedness |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910809827903321 |
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Jay Timothy
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| Philadelphia : , : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., , 1992 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The development of African American English [[electronic resource] /] / Walt Wolfram and Erik R. Thomas ; in collaboration with Elaine W. Green ... [et al.]
| The development of African American English [[electronic resource] /] / Walt Wolfram and Erik R. Thomas ; in collaboration with Elaine W. Green ... [et al.] |
| Autore | Wolfram Walt <1941-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; Malden, MA, : Blackwell Publishers, 2002 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (258 p.) |
| Disciplina |
427.97308996073
427/.973/08996073 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | ThomasErik R |
| Collana | Language in society |
| Soggetto topico |
Black English - History
English language - Social aspects - United States English language - United States - History African Americans - Languages Americanisms |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-281-31968-6
9786611319687 0-470-69017-8 0-470-77990-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Series Editor 's Preface; Preface; 1 Introduction; 1.1 The Status of African American English; 1.2 A Unique Database; 1.3 The Hyde County Corpus; 1.4 Data Analysis; 1.5 Beyond Hyde County; 2 Issues in the Development of African American English; 2.1 Hypotheses on Earlier African American English; 2.2 Issues in Reconstructing Earlier AAVE; 2.2.1 The nature of earlier written texts; 2.2.2 Spoken language data representing earlier AAVE; 2.2.3 The sociohistorical context of earlier African Americans; 2.2.4 Variation in earlier AAVE
2.2.5 Donor source attribution2.3 African American English in the Twentieth Century; 3 Defining the Enclave Dialect Community; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Historically Isolated Speech Communities; 3.2.1 Geography; 3.2.2 Economy; 3.2.3 Historical continuity; 3.2.4 Social relations; 3.2.5 Group identity; 3.2.6 The social construction of enclave status; 3.3 Language Change in Enclave Communities; 3.4 Sociolinguistic Principles in the Con .guration of Isolated Dialects; 4 The Social History of Mainland Hyde County; 4.1 Chesapeake Bay Origins; 4.2 The Settlement of Hyde County 4.3 Hyde County from the Revolutionary War to the Civil War4.4 Reconstruction to the Great Depression; 4.5 Hyde County since 1940; 4.6 Sociohistorical Effects on Language; 5 Morphosyntactic Alignment in Hyde County English; 5.1 Issues in Attribution; 5.2 Past Tense be Regularization; 5.2.1 The historical development of leveling to weren 't; 5.2.2 Was/weren ' t leveling in Hyde County; 5.3 Copula/Auxiliary Is and Are Absence; 5.3.1 The historical development of copula absence; 5.3.2 Copula absence in Hyde County; 5.4 Third Person -s Marking 5.4.1 The historical development of verbal -s marking5.4.2 Verbal -s marking in Hyde County; 5.5.Conclusion; 6 Vocalic Alignment in Hyde County English; 6.1 An Overview of Hyde County Vowels; 6.2 The Historical Background of Hyde County Vowels; 6.3 Quantitative Analysis of Hyde County Vowels; 6.4 Conclusions; 7 Consonantal Alignment in Hyde County English; 7.1 Earlier Hyde County Consonants; 7.2 The Case of Consonant Cluster Reduction; 7.2.1 The patterning of cluster reduction; 7.2.2 Explaining consonant cluster reduction patterns in Hyde County; 7.3 The Case of Postvocalic r Vocalization 7.3.1 The patterning of postvocalic r -lessness7.3.2 Post-/d/r vocalization; 7.4 Conclusion; 8 Intonational Alignment in Hyde County English; 8.1 African American and European American Intonation; 8.2 Analytical Methods; 8.3 Results and Implications; 8.4 Conclusions; 9 The Individual and Group in Earlier African American English; 9.1 The Individual and Group in Variation Studies; 9.2 The Sample of Elderly African American Speakers; 9.3 Some Diagnostic Variables; 9.3.1 Rhoticity; 9.3.2 Syllable-coda consonant cluster reduction; 9.3.3 The vowel system; 9.3.4 Verbal -s concord 9.3.5 Copula absence |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910145740403321 |
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Wolfram Walt <1941->
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| Oxford ; ; Malden, MA, : Blackwell Publishers, 2002 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The development of African American English [[electronic resource] /] / Walt Wolfram and Erik R. Thomas ; in collaboration with Elaine W. Green ... [et al.]
| The development of African American English [[electronic resource] /] / Walt Wolfram and Erik R. Thomas ; in collaboration with Elaine W. Green ... [et al.] |
| Autore | Wolfram Walt <1941-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; Malden, MA, : Blackwell Publishers, 2002 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (258 p.) |
| Disciplina |
427.97308996073
427/.973/08996073 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | ThomasErik R |
| Collana | Language in society |
| Soggetto topico |
Black English - History
English language - Social aspects - United States English language - United States - History African Americans - Languages Americanisms |
| ISBN |
1-281-31968-6
9786611319687 0-470-69017-8 0-470-77990-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Series Editor 's Preface; Preface; 1 Introduction; 1.1 The Status of African American English; 1.2 A Unique Database; 1.3 The Hyde County Corpus; 1.4 Data Analysis; 1.5 Beyond Hyde County; 2 Issues in the Development of African American English; 2.1 Hypotheses on Earlier African American English; 2.2 Issues in Reconstructing Earlier AAVE; 2.2.1 The nature of earlier written texts; 2.2.2 Spoken language data representing earlier AAVE; 2.2.3 The sociohistorical context of earlier African Americans; 2.2.4 Variation in earlier AAVE
2.2.5 Donor source attribution2.3 African American English in the Twentieth Century; 3 Defining the Enclave Dialect Community; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Historically Isolated Speech Communities; 3.2.1 Geography; 3.2.2 Economy; 3.2.3 Historical continuity; 3.2.4 Social relations; 3.2.5 Group identity; 3.2.6 The social construction of enclave status; 3.3 Language Change in Enclave Communities; 3.4 Sociolinguistic Principles in the Con .guration of Isolated Dialects; 4 The Social History of Mainland Hyde County; 4.1 Chesapeake Bay Origins; 4.2 The Settlement of Hyde County 4.3 Hyde County from the Revolutionary War to the Civil War4.4 Reconstruction to the Great Depression; 4.5 Hyde County since 1940; 4.6 Sociohistorical Effects on Language; 5 Morphosyntactic Alignment in Hyde County English; 5.1 Issues in Attribution; 5.2 Past Tense be Regularization; 5.2.1 The historical development of leveling to weren 't; 5.2.2 Was/weren ' t leveling in Hyde County; 5.3 Copula/Auxiliary Is and Are Absence; 5.3.1 The historical development of copula absence; 5.3.2 Copula absence in Hyde County; 5.4 Third Person -s Marking 5.4.1 The historical development of verbal -s marking5.4.2 Verbal -s marking in Hyde County; 5.5.Conclusion; 6 Vocalic Alignment in Hyde County English; 6.1 An Overview of Hyde County Vowels; 6.2 The Historical Background of Hyde County Vowels; 6.3 Quantitative Analysis of Hyde County Vowels; 6.4 Conclusions; 7 Consonantal Alignment in Hyde County English; 7.1 Earlier Hyde County Consonants; 7.2 The Case of Consonant Cluster Reduction; 7.2.1 The patterning of cluster reduction; 7.2.2 Explaining consonant cluster reduction patterns in Hyde County; 7.3 The Case of Postvocalic r Vocalization 7.3.1 The patterning of postvocalic r -lessness7.3.2 Post-/d/r vocalization; 7.4 Conclusion; 8 Intonational Alignment in Hyde County English; 8.1 African American and European American Intonation; 8.2 Analytical Methods; 8.3 Results and Implications; 8.4 Conclusions; 9 The Individual and Group in Earlier African American English; 9.1 The Individual and Group in Variation Studies; 9.2 The Sample of Elderly African American Speakers; 9.3 Some Diagnostic Variables; 9.3.1 Rhoticity; 9.3.2 Syllable-coda consonant cluster reduction; 9.3.3 The vowel system; 9.3.4 Verbal -s concord 9.3.5 Copula absence |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910830174203321 |
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Wolfram Walt <1941->
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| Oxford ; ; Malden, MA, : Blackwell Publishers, 2002 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The development of African American English [[electronic resource] /] / Walt Wolfram and Erik R. Thomas ; in collaboration with Elaine W. Green ... [et al.]
| The development of African American English [[electronic resource] /] / Walt Wolfram and Erik R. Thomas ; in collaboration with Elaine W. Green ... [et al.] |
| Autore | Wolfram Walt <1941-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; Malden, MA, : Blackwell Publishers, 2002 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (258 p.) |
| Disciplina |
427.97308996073
427/.973/08996073 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | ThomasErik R |
| Collana | Language in society |
| Soggetto topico |
Black English - History
English language - Social aspects - United States English language - United States - History African Americans - Languages Americanisms |
| ISBN |
1-281-31968-6
9786611319687 0-470-69017-8 0-470-77990-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Series Editor 's Preface; Preface; 1 Introduction; 1.1 The Status of African American English; 1.2 A Unique Database; 1.3 The Hyde County Corpus; 1.4 Data Analysis; 1.5 Beyond Hyde County; 2 Issues in the Development of African American English; 2.1 Hypotheses on Earlier African American English; 2.2 Issues in Reconstructing Earlier AAVE; 2.2.1 The nature of earlier written texts; 2.2.2 Spoken language data representing earlier AAVE; 2.2.3 The sociohistorical context of earlier African Americans; 2.2.4 Variation in earlier AAVE
2.2.5 Donor source attribution2.3 African American English in the Twentieth Century; 3 Defining the Enclave Dialect Community; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Historically Isolated Speech Communities; 3.2.1 Geography; 3.2.2 Economy; 3.2.3 Historical continuity; 3.2.4 Social relations; 3.2.5 Group identity; 3.2.6 The social construction of enclave status; 3.3 Language Change in Enclave Communities; 3.4 Sociolinguistic Principles in the Con .guration of Isolated Dialects; 4 The Social History of Mainland Hyde County; 4.1 Chesapeake Bay Origins; 4.2 The Settlement of Hyde County 4.3 Hyde County from the Revolutionary War to the Civil War4.4 Reconstruction to the Great Depression; 4.5 Hyde County since 1940; 4.6 Sociohistorical Effects on Language; 5 Morphosyntactic Alignment in Hyde County English; 5.1 Issues in Attribution; 5.2 Past Tense be Regularization; 5.2.1 The historical development of leveling to weren 't; 5.2.2 Was/weren ' t leveling in Hyde County; 5.3 Copula/Auxiliary Is and Are Absence; 5.3.1 The historical development of copula absence; 5.3.2 Copula absence in Hyde County; 5.4 Third Person -s Marking 5.4.1 The historical development of verbal -s marking5.4.2 Verbal -s marking in Hyde County; 5.5.Conclusion; 6 Vocalic Alignment in Hyde County English; 6.1 An Overview of Hyde County Vowels; 6.2 The Historical Background of Hyde County Vowels; 6.3 Quantitative Analysis of Hyde County Vowels; 6.4 Conclusions; 7 Consonantal Alignment in Hyde County English; 7.1 Earlier Hyde County Consonants; 7.2 The Case of Consonant Cluster Reduction; 7.2.1 The patterning of cluster reduction; 7.2.2 Explaining consonant cluster reduction patterns in Hyde County; 7.3 The Case of Postvocalic r Vocalization 7.3.1 The patterning of postvocalic r -lessness7.3.2 Post-/d/r vocalization; 7.4 Conclusion; 8 Intonational Alignment in Hyde County English; 8.1 African American and European American Intonation; 8.2 Analytical Methods; 8.3 Results and Implications; 8.4 Conclusions; 9 The Individual and Group in Earlier African American English; 9.1 The Individual and Group in Variation Studies; 9.2 The Sample of Elderly African American Speakers; 9.3 Some Diagnostic Variables; 9.3.1 Rhoticity; 9.3.2 Syllable-coda consonant cluster reduction; 9.3.3 The vowel system; 9.3.4 Verbal -s concord 9.3.5 Copula absence |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910841639903321 |
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Wolfram Walt <1941->
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| Oxford ; ; Malden, MA, : Blackwell Publishers, 2002 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The emergence of Black English [[electronic resource] ] : text and commentary / / edited by Guy Bailey, Natalie Maynor and Patricia Cukor-Avila
| The emergence of Black English [[electronic resource] ] : text and commentary / / edited by Guy Bailey, Natalie Maynor and Patricia Cukor-Avila |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1991 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (362 p.) |
| Disciplina | 427/.97308996073 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
BaileyGuy <1950->
MaynorNatalie Cukor-AvilaPatricia |
| Collana | Creole language library |
| Soggetto topico |
Black English - History
English language - United States - History Creole dialects, English - United States Slaves - United States - Language African Americans - Languages Black English Americanisms |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-283-32819-4
9786613328199 90-272-7783-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
THE EMERGENCE OF BLACK ENGLISH; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; The Contents of the Collection; The Reliability and Validity of the Collection as Linguistic Data; Conduct of the Fieldwork; Composition of the Transcripts; The Interpretation of the Recordings and Transcripts; NOTES; TEXTS; Wallace Quarterman; Fountain Hughes; Uncle Billy McCrea; Uncle Bob Ledbetter; Joe McDonald and Woman; Isom Moseley; Alice Gaston; Laura Smalley; Harriet Smith; Celia Black; Charlie Smith; COMMENTARY
Speaking of Slavery: The Historical Value Of the Recordings With Former Slaves The Tapes as History; The Tapes and the Interview Process; Slave Narratives, Slave Culture, and the Slave Experience; Slaves As Chattel; Slave Attitudes Toward Masters; Slave Duties and Occupations; Folk Material Culture and Crafts; Folk Narratives; The Religious Experience; Recreation; The Yankee Soldiers Remembered; The Post-Slavery Experience; Summary and Conclusions; Songs, Sermons, and Life-Stories: The Legacy of the Ex-Slave Narrati ves; Introduction; Interviewing the Interviewer; Social Situation in the 1930's Conclusion The Linguistic Value of the Ex-Slave Recordings; Problems With Conduct of the Interviews; Problems With Reliability of the Data; Problems with Quality of the Data; Left Dislocation; Relative Pronouns; Comparison To Gullah; Summary; NOTES; Representativeness and Reliability of the Ex-Slave Narrative Materials, With Special Reference to Wallace Quarterman's Recording and Transcript; Introduction; Representativeness; Reliability; The Quarterman Tanscript; Changes That Make a Qualitative Difference; Changes That Make a Quantitative Difference; Summary and Conclusion; NOTES; Appendix Is Gullah Decreolizing? A Comparison of a Speech Sample of the 1930's With a Sample of the 1980's1. Introduction; 2. The Data; 3. The Morphosyntax of Quarterman's Gullah; 3.1 Quarterman's Speech is Just Mesolectal; 3.2 Gullah Is Not Decreolizing; 4. Conclusion and Some Reflections; NOTES; The Atlantic Creoles and the Language of the Ex-Slave Recordings; 1. The Verb Phrase; 1.1 Creole Unmarked/Anterior versus English Present/Past; 1.2 Progressive and Habitual Aspect; 1.3 Completive Aspect; 2. Forms of be; 3. The Noun Phrase; 4. Pronouns; 5. Prepositions; 6. Word Order; 7. Lexical Items 8. Conclusion NOTES; Liberian Settler English and the Ex-Slave Recordings: A Comparative Study; 1.1 The Liberian Settlers' New World Roots; 1.2 Three LSE Speakers; 2.1 The Verb System: Aspect; 2.2 The Verb System: The Copula; 2.3 The Verb System: done and ain't; 3.1 Variation in Plural Marking; 3.2 Plural Marking in the Ex-Slave Recordings and LSE; 4. Conclusion; NOTES; Appendix A; Appendix B; There's No Tense Like the Present: Verbal -s Inflection in Early Black English; 1.0. Introduction; 2.0. Previous analyses of black English -s; 2.1. Hypercorrection; 2.2. Aspectual marker 2.3. Verbal agreement marker |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910457439903321 |
| Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1991 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The emergence of Black English : text and commentary / / editors, Guy Bailey, Natalie Maynor, Patricia Cukor-Avila
| The emergence of Black English : text and commentary / / editors, Guy Bailey, Natalie Maynor, Patricia Cukor-Avila |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., , 1991 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (x, 352 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 427/.97308996073 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
BaileyGuy <1950->
MaynorNatalie Cukor-AvilaPatricia |
| Collana | Creole language library |
| Soggetto topico |
Black English - History
English language - United States - History Creole dialects, English - United States Enslaved persons - United States - Language African Americans - Languages Black English Americanisms |
| ISBN |
1-283-32819-4
9786613328199 90-272-7783-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
THE EMERGENCE OF BLACK ENGLISH; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; The Contents of the Collection; The Reliability and Validity of the Collection as Linguistic Data; Conduct of the Fieldwork; Composition of the Transcripts; The Interpretation of the Recordings and Transcripts; NOTES; TEXTS; Wallace Quarterman; Fountain Hughes; Uncle Billy McCrea; Uncle Bob Ledbetter; Joe McDonald and Woman; Isom Moseley; Alice Gaston; Laura Smalley; Harriet Smith; Celia Black; Charlie Smith; COMMENTARY
Speaking of Slavery: The Historical Value Of the Recordings With Former Slaves The Tapes as History; The Tapes and the Interview Process; Slave Narratives, Slave Culture, and the Slave Experience; Slaves As Chattel; Slave Attitudes Toward Masters; Slave Duties and Occupations; Folk Material Culture and Crafts; Folk Narratives; The Religious Experience; Recreation; The Yankee Soldiers Remembered; The Post-Slavery Experience; Summary and Conclusions; Songs, Sermons, and Life-Stories: The Legacy of the Ex-Slave Narrati ves; Introduction; Interviewing the Interviewer; Social Situation in the 1930's Conclusion The Linguistic Value of the Ex-Slave Recordings; Problems With Conduct of the Interviews; Problems With Reliability of the Data; Problems with Quality of the Data; Left Dislocation; Relative Pronouns; Comparison To Gullah; Summary; NOTES; Representativeness and Reliability of the Ex-Slave Narrative Materials, With Special Reference to Wallace Quarterman's Recording and Transcript; Introduction; Representativeness; Reliability; The Quarterman Tanscript; Changes That Make a Qualitative Difference; Changes That Make a Quantitative Difference; Summary and Conclusion; NOTES; Appendix Is Gullah Decreolizing? A Comparison of a Speech Sample of the 1930's With a Sample of the 1980's; 1. Introduction; 2. The Data; 3. The Morphosyntax of Quarterman's Gullah; 3.1 Quarterman's Speech is Just Mesolectal; 3.2 Gullah Is Not Decreolizing; 4. Conclusion and Some Reflections; NOTES; The Atlantic Creoles and the Language of the Ex-Slave Recordings; 1. The Verb Phrase; 1.1 Creole Unmarked/Anterior versus English Present/Past; 1.2 Progressive and Habitual Aspect; 1.3 Completive Aspect; 2. Forms of be; 3. The Noun Phrase; 4. Pronouns; 5. Prepositions; 6. Word Order; 7. Lexical Items 8. Conclusion NOTES; Liberian Settler English and the Ex-Slave Recordings: A Comparative Study; 1.1 The Liberian Settlers' New World Roots; 1.2 Three LSE Speakers; 2.1 The Verb System: Aspect; 2.2 The Verb System: The Copula; 2.3 The Verb System: done and ain't; 3.1 Variation in Plural Marking; 3.2 Plural Marking in the Ex-Slave Recordings and LSE; 4. Conclusion; NOTES; Appendix A; Appendix B; There's No Tense Like the Present: Verbal -s Inflection in Early Black English; 1.0. Introduction; 2.0. Previous analyses of black English -s; 2.1. Hypercorrection; 2.2. Aspectual marker; 2.3. Verbal agreement marker |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781598003321 |
| Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., , 1991 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The emergence of Black English : text and commentary / / editors, Guy Bailey, Natalie Maynor, Patricia Cukor-Avila
| The emergence of Black English : text and commentary / / editors, Guy Bailey, Natalie Maynor, Patricia Cukor-Avila |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., , 1991 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (x, 352 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 427/.97308996073 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
BaileyGuy <1950->
MaynorNatalie Cukor-AvilaPatricia |
| Collana | Creole language library |
| Soggetto topico |
Black English - History
English language - United States - History Creole dialects, English - United States Enslaved persons - United States - Language African Americans - Languages Black English Americanisms |
| ISBN |
1-283-32819-4
9786613328199 90-272-7783-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
THE EMERGENCE OF BLACK ENGLISH; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; The Contents of the Collection; The Reliability and Validity of the Collection as Linguistic Data; Conduct of the Fieldwork; Composition of the Transcripts; The Interpretation of the Recordings and Transcripts; NOTES; TEXTS; Wallace Quarterman; Fountain Hughes; Uncle Billy McCrea; Uncle Bob Ledbetter; Joe McDonald and Woman; Isom Moseley; Alice Gaston; Laura Smalley; Harriet Smith; Celia Black; Charlie Smith; COMMENTARY
Speaking of Slavery: The Historical Value Of the Recordings With Former Slaves The Tapes as History; The Tapes and the Interview Process; Slave Narratives, Slave Culture, and the Slave Experience; Slaves As Chattel; Slave Attitudes Toward Masters; Slave Duties and Occupations; Folk Material Culture and Crafts; Folk Narratives; The Religious Experience; Recreation; The Yankee Soldiers Remembered; The Post-Slavery Experience; Summary and Conclusions; Songs, Sermons, and Life-Stories: The Legacy of the Ex-Slave Narrati ves; Introduction; Interviewing the Interviewer; Social Situation in the 1930's Conclusion The Linguistic Value of the Ex-Slave Recordings; Problems With Conduct of the Interviews; Problems With Reliability of the Data; Problems with Quality of the Data; Left Dislocation; Relative Pronouns; Comparison To Gullah; Summary; NOTES; Representativeness and Reliability of the Ex-Slave Narrative Materials, With Special Reference to Wallace Quarterman's Recording and Transcript; Introduction; Representativeness; Reliability; The Quarterman Tanscript; Changes That Make a Qualitative Difference; Changes That Make a Quantitative Difference; Summary and Conclusion; NOTES; Appendix Is Gullah Decreolizing? A Comparison of a Speech Sample of the 1930's With a Sample of the 1980's; 1. Introduction; 2. The Data; 3. The Morphosyntax of Quarterman's Gullah; 3.1 Quarterman's Speech is Just Mesolectal; 3.2 Gullah Is Not Decreolizing; 4. Conclusion and Some Reflections; NOTES; The Atlantic Creoles and the Language of the Ex-Slave Recordings; 1. The Verb Phrase; 1.1 Creole Unmarked/Anterior versus English Present/Past; 1.2 Progressive and Habitual Aspect; 1.3 Completive Aspect; 2. Forms of be; 3. The Noun Phrase; 4. Pronouns; 5. Prepositions; 6. Word Order; 7. Lexical Items 8. Conclusion NOTES; Liberian Settler English and the Ex-Slave Recordings: A Comparative Study; 1.1 The Liberian Settlers' New World Roots; 1.2 Three LSE Speakers; 2.1 The Verb System: Aspect; 2.2 The Verb System: The Copula; 2.3 The Verb System: done and ain't; 3.1 Variation in Plural Marking; 3.2 Plural Marking in the Ex-Slave Recordings and LSE; 4. Conclusion; NOTES; Appendix A; Appendix B; There's No Tense Like the Present: Verbal -s Inflection in Early Black English; 1.0. Introduction; 2.0. Previous analyses of black English -s; 2.1. Hypercorrection; 2.2. Aspectual marker; 2.3. Verbal agreement marker |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910808520103321 |
| Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., , 1991 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Focus on the USA [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Edgar W. Schneider
| Focus on the USA [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Edgar W. Schneider |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, c1996 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (374 p.) |
| Disciplina | 420/.973 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | SchneiderEdgar W <1954-> (Edgar Werner) |
| Collana | Varieties of English around the world. General series |
| Soggetto topico |
English language - United States
English language - Social aspects - United States English language - Variation - United States Americanisms |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-283-35841-7
9786613358417 90-272-7603-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
FOCUS ON THE USA; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; INTRODUCTION: RESEARCH TRENDS IN THE STUDY OF AMERICAN ENGLISH; References; PINEY WOODS SOUTHERN; References; FOUNDATIONS OF AMERICAN ENGLISH; 1. Introduction; 2. Probability mapping; 3. Lexical variation in colonial cities; 4. Conclusion; References; THE COMPARABILITY OF LINGUISTIC ATLAS RECORDS: THE CASE OF LANCS AND LAGS; 1. Introduction; 2. Method; 3. Lexical results; 4. Phonological results; 5. Conclusion; References; TERMS USED FOR CHILDREN'S GAMES: COMPARING DARE'S FINDINGS WITH USAGE OF TODAY'S YOUTH
1. Introduction 2. Methodology; 3. Findings; 4. Summary and reasons for change; THE DIALECTS OF THE MIDDLE WEST; 1. Introduction; 2. Northern, Midland, North Midland, South Midland; 3. Pronunciation: Sociolinguistic methods in a geographical context; 4. Foreign language influences; References; DIALECT CHANGE AND MAINTENANCE IN A POST-INSULAR ISLAND COMMUNITY; 1. Introduction; 2. An ethnographic perspective on dialect study; 3. The Ocracoke ""Brogue"" and other American English dialects; 4. The case of Ocracoke /ay/: Phonetic and phonological issues 5. Phonetic implausibility vs. social significance 6. Weren't regularization; 7. Applying the principle of linguistic gratuity in Ocracoke; References; A COMPARISON OF VARIATION PATTERNS OF VARIABLES AMONG SIXTH-GRADERS IN AN OHIO COMMUNITY; 1. Influences on dialectal change; 1.1. The survey; 1.2. The community; 2. Methods; 2.1. Interviewing; 2.2. Measurement of linguistic variables; 2.3. Independent variables; 2.4. Measurement of correlation; 3. Analyses of the linguistic variables; 3.1. /o/; 3.2. /æ/; 3.3. /ai/; 3.4. Upgliding in dog and similar words 3.5. The merger of pre-nasal /I/ and /ul/3.6. Mergers involving /ol/, /ull/, and /ul/; 3.7. Don't and home; 3.8. Roof; 3.9. Hostile; 3.10. Lightning bug; 3.11. Teeter-totter; 4. Conclusions; Acknowledgments; Appendix; References; PERCEPTIONS WITHIN A VARIABLE PARADIGM: BLACK AND WHITE RACIAL DETECTION AND IDENTIFICATION BASED ON SPEECH*; 1.Introduction; 2. Theoretical foundations; 3. Procedures; 3.1. Speech selection; 3.2. The Linguistic Sensitivity Test; 3.3. Data specification; 4. Results; 4.1. Possible interpretations; 4.2. Native evaluations and second language evaluations 4.3 Native judges ' evaluations based on social background 5. Implications for research on housing discrimination; 6. Conclusion; References; SEX-BASED DIFFERENCES IN LANGUAGE CHOICE IN AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN NEIGHBORHOOD IN DETROIT; 1. Introduction; 2. The inner city area study; 3. Theoretical considerations; 4. The Vernacular Language Project (VLP); 5. Language and gender; 6. Language and gender in the 60+ age group; References; THE ENGLISH COMPETENCE OF CUBAN EXILES: THE CASE OF NOUN PLURALIZATION; 1. Introduction; 2. Informant selection and data gathering; 3. Data analysis 4. Results and discussion |
| Altri titoli varianti | Focus on the United States of America |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910457862403321 |
| Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, c1996 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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