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I can look through muddy water: Analyzing Earlier African American English in Blues Lyrics (BLUR)

I can look through muddy water: Analyzing Earlier African American English in Blues Lyrics (BLUR)

Miethaner, Ulrich
Schneider, Edgar W.

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Series: Regensburger Arbeiten Zur Anglistik Und Amerikanistik / Rege, Book 47

English as a Second LanguageLinguisticsGeneral Music

ISBN10: 3631540574
ISBN13: 9783631540572
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: Jul 27 2005
Pages: 252
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.53 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
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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