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The Historian's History and the Reconstructionist's History in the Tracing of Linguistic Variants
Dillard, J. L. – Florida FL Reporter, 1973
Examins historical and current views of pidgins and creoles. (KM)
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Creoles, Diachronic Linguistics, Nonstandard Dialects
The DARE-ing Old Men on Their Flying Isoglosses, or, Dialectology and Dialect Geography
Dillard, J. L. – Florida FL Reporter, 1969
Asserting that all dialect variation is accountable for in terms of social factors, this article strongly critizes the methods, assumptions and conclusions of geography-oriented dialectology. (FB)
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Dialect Studies, Regional Dialects, Social Dialects
Lay My Isogloss Bundle Down: The Contribution of Black English to American Dialectology
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Dillard, J. L. – Linguistics, 1974
Descriptors: Atlases, Black Dialects, Dialect Studies, Geographic Distribution
On a Context for Dialect Data: The Case of Black English
Dillard, J. L. – Florida FL Reporter, 1972
A rebuttal to Lawrence M. Davis' Social Dialectology in America,'' Journal of English Linguistics, March 1970, p46-56. Special issue on Black Dialect: Historical and Descriptive Issues'' edited by William A. Stewart. (RS)
Descriptors: Atlases, Black Dialects, Creoles, Data Collection
How to Tell the Bandits From the Good Guys, or, What Dialect to Teach?
Dillard, J. L. – Florida F L Rep, 1969
Advocates the recognition of a "consensus dialect of American English, which could be used for educational purposes throughout the United States. Appears in "The Florida FL Reporter special anthology issue, "Linguistic-Cultural Differences and American Education. (FWB)
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Dialect Studies, Diglossia, English Education
Black English in New York
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Dillard, J. L. – English Record, 1971
Black English-Negro Nonstandard English, or Negro dialect,"-although perhaps represented by less divergent varieties in the Northern cities of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, is here shown to have been there all along. (JM)
Descriptors: Black Culture, Black Dialects, Creoles, Diachronic Linguistics
Lexicon of Black English.
Dillard, J. L. – 1977
The purpose of this volume is to demonstrate that the fields of linguistics, dialectology, language education, and early reading would be well served by a word book of the Black English vernacular. Chapters are devoted to discussion of the social significance of a lexicon of Black English vernacular, the terminology of sex and lovemaking, religion…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Diachronic Linguistics, Language Patterns, Language Research