Tabla de Contenidos:
  • General introduction : perspectives on Black English / J.L. Dillard
  • American linguistic geography : a sociological appraisal / Glenna Ruth Pickford
  • Observations (1966) on the problems of defending Negro dialect / William A. Stewart
  • Black American English and syntactic dialectology / Marvin D. Loflin
  • Dialectology in generative grammar / Philip A. Luelsdorff
  • Ain't, not, and don't in Black English / Joan G. Fickett
  • Das Neger-Englisch an der westkuste von Afrika / P. Grade
  • Negro English / J.A. Harrison
  • A word-list from East Alabama / L.W. Payne, Jr.
  • Some special West African English words ; A note on the words dash and ju-ju in West African English / Paul Christophersen
  • Negro dialect / C.M. Wise
  • Sociolinguistic factors in the history of American Negro dialects ; Continuity and change in American Negro dialects / William A. Stewart
  • Some aspects of English in Liberia / Ian F. Hancock
  • Acculturation among the Gullah Negroes / William R. Bascom
  • The writings of Herskovits and the study of the language of the Negro in the New World / J.L. Dillard
  • Black kinesics : some non-verbal communication patterns in the black culture / Kenneth R. Johnson
  • Classroom correction tests / William Labov, et al.
  • The learning of Black English by Puerto Ricans in New York City / Stuart Silverman
  • A sociolinguistic consideration of the Black English of children in Northern Florida / Susan H. Houston
  • White and Negro listeners' reactions to various American-English dialects / Wallace E. Lambert and G. Richard Tucker.