A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology
by José Ángel García Landa
(University of Zaragoza, Spain)
Black American English
Álvarez Mosquera, Pedro. Identidad y Language Crossing: El uso de inglés afroamericano por raperos blancos. Bern: Peter Lang, 2012.
Bailey, B. L. "Toward a New Perspective in Negro Dialectology." American Speech 40. Rpt. in Black-White Speech Relationships. Ed. W. Wolfram and N. Clarke. Washington: Center for Applied Linguistics, 1971. 41-50.
Baily, Guy, et al., eds. The Emergence of Black English:Texts and Commentary. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1991.
Baugh, John. Black Street Speech: Its History, Structure and Survival. Austin: U of Texas P, 1983.
Dillard, J. L. Black English: Its History and Usage in the United States. New York: Random House, 1972.
Fasold, R. W., W. Labov, F. B. Vaughn-Cooke, G. Bailey, W. Wolfram, A. K. Spears, J. Rickford. "Are Black and White Vernaculars Diverging?" American Speech 62.1 (1987): 3-80.
Goodwin, Marjorie Harness. "Conversational Practices in a Peer Group of Urban Black Children." Ph.D. diss., Dpt. of Anthropology, U of Pennsylvania, 1978.
_____. He-Said-She-Said: Talk as Social Organization among Black Children. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1990.
Harrison, J. A. "Negro English." Anglis 7 (1884): 232-79.
Holm, John. "African-American English." Rev. of African-American English: Structure, History and Use. Ed. S. S. Mufwene et al. European English Messenger 7.2 (1998): 52-55.*
_____. "The Atlantic Creoles and the Language of Ex-Slave Recordings." In The Emergence of Black English. Ed. G. Baily et al. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1991. 231-47.
Kochman, Thomas. Black and White Styles in Conflict. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1981.
Labov, William. Sociolinguistic Patterns. (Conduct and Communication). Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1972.
_____. Language in the Inner City: Studies in the Black English Vernacular. (Conduct and Communication). Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1972.*
_____. "Objectivity and Commitment in Linguistic Science: The Case of the Black English Trial in Ann Arbor." Language in Society 11 (1982): 165-201.
Mufwene, Salikoko S., J. R. Rickford, G. Bailey and J. Baugh, eds. African-American English: Structure, History and Use. London: Routledge, 1998.
Poplack, Shana. The English History of African American English. (Language in Society). Oxford: Blackwell, 1999.
Poplack, Shana, and Sali Tagliamonte. African American English in the Diaspora. (Language in Society). Oxford: Blackwell, 2001.
Rickford, John R. Dimensions of a Creole Continuum. 1987.
_____. "Prior Creolization of African-American Vernacular English? Sociohistorical and Textual Evidence from the 17th and 18th centuries." Journal of Sociolinguistics 1.3 (1997): 315-36.
_____. African American Vernacular English. (Language in Society). Oxford: Blackwell, 1999.
Richardson, Elaine. African-American Literacies. (Literacies). London: Routledge, 2002.
Schneider, E. W. American Earlier Black English: Morphological and Syntactic Variables. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 1989.
Smitherman, Geneva. (University Distinguished Professor of English, Michigan State U). Talkin and Testifyin. 1977.
_____. Black Talk. 1994.
_____. Talkin that Talk: Language, Culture and Education in African America. London and New York: Routledge, 1999. Rpt. 2001.*
Winford, D. "On the Origins of African American Vernacular English: A Creolist Perspective." Diachronica 14.2 (1997): 305-44; 15.1 (1998): 99-154.
Wolfram, W., and N. Clarke, eds. Black-White Speech Relationships. Washington: Center for Applied Linguistics, 1971.
Wolfram, Walt and Erik Thomas (North Carolina State U). The Development of African American English. (Language in Society). Oxford: Blackwell, 2002.
