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Kochman, Thomas – 1983
To be culturally valid, the characteristics identified by dialectologists as distinctive of black English must correspond to the terms members of the black community use to characterize their speech. Not all of the patterns that characterize black English within the dialectal framework are equal in their social or ethnic significance--the speech…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Black Culture, Black Dialects, Cultural Awareness