I can look through muddy water : Analyzing Earlier African American English in Blues Lyrics (BLUR)
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
3631540574
ISBN-13
9783631540572
Publisher
Peter Lang AG
Imprint
Peter Lang AG
Country of Manufacture
DE
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 27th, 2005
Print length
248 Pages
Weight
334 grams
Dimensions
15.00 x 21.00 x 1.50 cms
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United Kingdom, Great BritainNorth America (USA and Canada)EnglishTheory of music & musicologyTheory of music and musicologySociolinguisticsHistorical & comparative linguisticsHistorical and comparative linguisticsLanguage teaching theory and methodsELT: teaching theory & methods
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With its 1.5 million words BLUR is the biggest electronic corpus of nonstandard English. The present study describes the stages in the design, the compilation, and the editing of BLUR and attempts to gauge its linguistic profit. This is done both from a theoretical perspective - blues poetry vs. natural speech, representativeness, validity - and from an analytical perspective in particular qualitative, quantitative, and comparative analyses of morphological, morphosyntactic, and syntactic features. The findings indicate that BLUR provides an outstandingly rich and reliable documentation of the vernaculars spoken by African Americans between the Civil War and World War II. The more than 1,000 illustrative examples presented throughout this study attest to the correctness of this statement.
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