Authority in Language: Investigating Language Prescription and StandardisationRoutledge & K. Paul, 1985 - 189 pages |
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... deletion to the extent to which speakers were integrated into Black English vernacular culture . To do this , he concentrated particularly on the group known as the Jets , and it is worth reporting his findings in a little detail ...
... deletion to the extent to which speakers were integrated into Black English vernacular culture . To do this , he concentrated particularly on the group known as the Jets , and it is worth reporting his findings in a little detail ...
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... deletion of [ 3 ] between vowels as in the EAT item feather – many are not aware of the extent to which in normal communities , the rule is applied . ( In fact our own findings were that young men delete the consonant in spon- taneous ...
... deletion of [ 3 ] between vowels as in the EAT item feather – many are not aware of the extent to which in normal communities , the rule is applied . ( In fact our own findings were that young men delete the consonant in spon- taneous ...
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... deletion , they tend , like the public generally , to underestimate the strength of such norms in the community , assuming that they are marginal phenomena confined to a small proportion of a normal individual's casual speech ...
... deletion , they tend , like the public generally , to underestimate the strength of such norms in the community , assuming that they are marginal phenomena confined to a small proportion of a normal individual's casual speech ...
Contents
Standard English and the complaint tradition | 29 |
Spoken and written norms | 54 |
Grammar and speech | 70 |
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