Dallas Public Library

You know my steez, an ethnographic and sociolinguistic study of styleshifting in a Black American speech community, H. Samy Alim

eng

Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-309).

no index present

non fiction

You know my steez

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H. Samy Alim

an ethnographic and sociolinguistic study of styleshifting in a Black American speech community

Introduction : you know my steez -- Designing sociolinguistic research on speech style -- How the other half speaks : ethnosensitivity and the shifting roles of the researcher -- This is corporate America takin over : schooling, survival, and the sociohistorical context of life in the occupied territories -- We some baaaddddd styleshifters : the copula in stylistic variation -- Our steelo switch up : third-person singular -s, possessive -s, and plural -s absence -- We be word sorcerers : invariant be and the equative copula in BL -- It takes two to make a thing go riiiiight : examining interaction in the coconstruction of style -- The gentrification of speech and speakers : Black language in White public space