Black English named on air as rule-governed dialect — the conviction underneath the Wardine-voice debate, stated by…
echoes
From: The Usage Wars — Bryan A. Garner + DFW, The Connection (WBUR, host Judy Swallow, March 30, 2001)
- Early text:
[scene] Interrupting Garner's fused-participle entry,
Wallace inserts that by the internal rules of certain dialects — several
forms of Black English among them — the fused participle is perfectly
fine [44:45–44:51];
the frame it rests on runs through the hour: standard written English is
one dialect among many, everyone shifts dialects below the level of
awareness,
and monodialectal speakers pay real social costs [11:23–13:29]
- IJ echo: the Clenette section rendered in Black English, scene 008
(pp. 37–38), the center of the wardine-voice ledger
- Weight: shared-preoccupation