Language Standards and Communicative Style in the Black Church |
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Purpose of Study | 8 |
Introduction | 18 |
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American English analysis argued audience basic Black church Black community Black language research Black preachers Black sermon Black speakers Church I preachers Church II class Black class preachers competence concept congregation context continuum copula absence correlation creole creolists cultural descent dialect ethnic ethnographic ethnography of speaking expressive extra-linguistic factors Fisk University focus folk preachers form and function formal frequency grammatical guage guistic Gullah Gumperz Hymes in/ing informal interaction involvement Labov language behavior language variation linguistic values linguistic variables Lord Louis Wright marker multiple negation Negro nonstandard Black English nonstandard Black speech nonstandard speech notion occur phase phonological present study problem segment selected semantic seminary trained preachers sentences sermon social class social meaning sociolinguistic speech acts speech community speech event speech patterns standard and nonstandard standard English standard speech structure stylistic talking style tion urban language usage verbal behavior White Wolfram