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Category: 6. Language
WOLF004. Wolfram, Walt. American
English: dialects and variation. Malden, M.A.: Blackwell Publishers,
1998. Pp. 182-83.
Publication type: Book chapter or section
Brief overview Robeson County's tri-ethnic population
and the Lumbee use of finite be(s). Concludes that “the
peculiar mix of dialect features in Lumbee Vernacular English clearly
shows how a cultural group can maintain a distinct ethnic identity by
molding past and present dialect features in a way which symbolically
indicates - and helps constitute - their cultural uniqueness even when
the ancestral language has been lost” (p. 183).
Additional subjects: Be(s) (dialect)
This annotation was edited on: June 5, 2002
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