Black English and the Mass Media

Based upon a thorough understanding of the evolution of Black English and the development of American Culture, Black English and the Mass Media integrates mass communications / journalism and linguistics within a broad theoretical and historical framework. From analysis of the mass media, Dr. Brasch develops a major new theory to explain the historical development of Black English, which he identifies as a valid dialect, and to present a hypothesis that may explain historical development of genre.

The speech Cuff gives to the society includes a number of linguistic
inconsistencies , but also a number of linguistic rules : “ Massa shentimen ; I be
cash crab in de Wye river ; find ting in de mud ; tone big a man ' s foot : holes like
to he ; fetch ...