Talkin and testifyin : the language of Black America / Geneva Smitherman.

By: Smitherman, Geneva, 1940-.

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1977General Notes: Includes index.Bibliography: Bibliography: p. [269]-280.Description: 291 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 0395253551.Subject(s): Black English -- United States

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DDC classification: 427/.9/73

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