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Magical Tome

Cover of Language in the Inner City
First published
1972
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Pages
440 pages
ISBN
9780812210514

Language in the Inner City

The outer archives are busy

by William Labov

About this book

IN the past ten years, a number of linguists have turned to the study of the nonstandard English spoken by black people in the inner city: the black English vernacular (BEV).

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