A Comparative Study of Urban Black Argot. Final Report / Edith A. Folb.

A current vocabulary of argot terms and meanings was collected from a Black male control group in the South Central Los Angeles ghetto. This lexicon was used to elicit and compare responses from 5 male groups of youths between 15 and 20 years old. Two of the groups consisted of lower class blacks se...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Folb, Edith A.
Corporate Authors:	University of California, Los Angeles. Department of Linguistics United States. Office of Education. Regional Research Program
Language:	English
Published:	[Place of publication not identified] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1972.
Subjects:	Black Dialects. Comparative Analysis. Dialect Studies. Disadvantaged Youth. Language Research. Language Styles. Males. Minority Groups. Nonstandard Dialects. Slum Environment. Social Differences. Speech Habits. Urban Language. Verbal Communication. Vocabulary. Whites. California (Los Angeles)
Physical Description:	162 pages
Format:	Microfilm Book

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