Publications

Publication details [#4320]

Hansell, Mark and Cheryl Seabrook. 1978. Some conversational conventions of Black English. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 4 : 576–587.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject

Annotation

H. and S. show that prosodic cues and formulaic speech in Black English are not just stylistic but convey a wealth of meaning.