Introduction Tom Trabasso and Deborah Sears Harrison. Part 1: Definition 1. The Anguish of Definition: Toward a New Concept of Blackness Ronald Williams 2. What Does It Take to Be Bilingual or Bidialectal? Klaus Riegel and Roy Freedle 3. Toward the Parameters of Black English Gilbert A. Sprauve Part 2: Historical Origins 4. Pidgins, Creoles, and the Origins of Vernacular Black English Elizabeth Closs Traugott 5. Sociolinguistic Configurations of African Language in the Americas: Some Educational Directives Angela Gilliam 6. The Black-Southern White Dialect Controversy: Who Did What To Whom? Ernest F. Dunn 7. My Gullah Brother and I: Exploration into a Community’s Language and Myth Through its Oral Tradition Ivan Van Sertima Part 3: Use 8. The Sounds of Black English William G. Moulton 9. Is There A Correspondence Between Sound and Spelling? Some Implications for Black English Speakers, Verley O’Neal and Tom Trabasso 10. Techniques for Eliciting Casual Speech Samples for the Study of the Black English Vernacular Deborah Sears Harrison 11. Black and White Children’s Responses to Black English Vernacular and Standard English Sentences: Evidence for Code-Switching William S. Hall 12. Black English in Black Folklore Danille Taylor Part 4: Implications 13. Linguistic Relativity: Any Relevance to Black English? John B. Carroll 14. The Cognitive Deficit-Difference Controversy: A Black Sociopolitical Perspective M. Eugene Wiggins 15. Black People and Black English: Attitudes and De-education in a Biased Macroculture Ann Covington 16. Levels of Sociolinguistics Bias in testing Walt Wolfram.
Biography
Deborah Sears Harrison
Tom Trabasso (1935–2005)
