Publications
Publication details [#34883]
Butters, Ronald R. 1989. The death of Black English: Divergence and convergence in black and white vernaculars. (Bamberger Beiträge zur englischen Sprachwissenschaft 25). Peter Lang. xii + 227 pp.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Annotation
This analysis of two competing hypotheses regarding the development of Black English Vernacular as compared to White English Vernacular, i.e. the divergence and the convergence hypothesis, states that there are both diverging and converging elements.
