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BLACK ENGLISH AND THE AMERICAN VALUE SYSTEM
dc.contributor.author | Drake, Glendon F. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2009-05-19T18:12:33Z | |
dc.date.available | 2009-05-19T18:12:33Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1973-10-01 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Kansas Journal of Sociology, Volume 9, Number 2 (FALL, 1973), pp. 217-227 http://dx.doi.org/10.17161/STR.1808.4779 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/4779 | |
dc.description.abstract | The strategy of enlightened bi-dialectalism used by the schools in the United States to deal with the problem of Black English is a significant attempt at social engineering. This attempt is motivated by basic linguistic attitudes which reflect the American value system. Bi-dialectalism is a melting-pot theory of American culture, an attempt to implement the American Dream of social mobility for all. This value operates in concert with the school's prescriptive linguistic attitude, through a co-optive strategy, against a pluralistic ethic. Bi-dialectalists err not in supposing code-switching is feasible, but in supposing that the school is the primary and proper agency for implementing code-switching. The failure of twentieth-century relativism to penetrate the school's value system so far as "English" is concerned has frozen the school in the nineteenth century in terms of linguistic attitudes. | |
dc.description.uri | http://web.ku.edu/~starjrnl | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.publisher | Department of Sociology, University of Kansas | |
dc.rights | Copyright (c) Social Thought and Research. For rights questions please contact Editor, Department of Sociology, Social Thought and Research, Fraser Hall, 1415 Jayhawk Blvd, Lawrence, KS 66045. | |
dc.title | BLACK ENGLISH AND THE AMERICAN VALUE SYSTEM | |
dc.type | Article | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.17161/STR.1808.4779 | |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess |