Language in the Inner City: Studies in the Black English Vernacular

by William Labov

Book Overview

With the recent controversy in the Oakland, California school district about Ebonics--or as it is referred to in sociolinguistic circles, African American Vernacular English or Black English... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812276582
• ISBN13: 9780812276589
• Release Date: September 1973
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.