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Reassessing the Status of Black English (Review Article).

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Spears, Arthur K. – Language in Society, 1992

Summarizes the main points presented in the 1989 book, "The Death of Black English" by R.R. Butlers (1989). Butler's book presents most important research of last 20 years and subjects the results to variation analysis. It is concluded that the history of linguistic assimilation points to the eventual disappearance of Black English in…

Descriptors: Black Dialects, Language Research, Language Variation, Linguistic Borrowing

Antitotalitarian Language in Poland: Some Mechanisms of Linguistic Self-Defense.

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Wierzbicka, Anna – Language in Society, 1990

Explores "political diglossia" in contemporary Poland, the unofficial, underground language of antipropaganda that arose in reaction to state propaganda. Colloquial and official designations for police and security forces are compared, and the semantics of relevant words and expressions are studied. Language is shown to reflect social…

Descriptors: Diglossia, Foreign Countries, Police Community Relationship, Polish