Ronald R. Butters. The Death of Black English: Divergence and Convergence in Black and White Vernaculars [Bamberger Beiträge zur Engli-schen Sprachwissenschaft, 25]. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1989. xii + 227 pp.

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Michael Montgomery | Department of English, University of South Carolina

Published online: 1 January 1993

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