Situational Variables in Language Use. Technical Report No. 167 [electronic resource] / Dolores Y. Straker.

A study was undertaken to examine how the variables that comprise the construct social situation (interlocutor, setting, and topic) influenced which language variety--standard English (SE) or black English (BE)--was chosen as a means of communication within a black English-speaking community and how...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ERIC)
Main Author:	Straker, Dolores Y.
Corporate Authors:	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Center for the Study of Reading, Bolt, Beranek, and Newman
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1980.
Subjects:	Black Dialects. Black Students. Contrastive Linguistics. Higher Education. Language Research. Language Usage. Situational Tests. Social Influences. Standard Spoken Usage.