Recommended Reading
- Bauman , Richard and Sherzer , Joel , eds. 1974 . Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking , Cambridge : Cambridge University . Twenty-one papers concerned fundamentally with socially based modes of the organization of language in actual performance, i.e., in speaking
- Dillard , J. L. 1972 . Black English: Its History and Usage in the United States , New York : Random House . Chapter VI, “Who Speaks Black English,” examines the community of those who speak this dialect
- Fishman , Joshua A. 1972 . Language in Sociocultural Change , New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston . Part IV, “Varieties of Ethnicity and Varieties of Language Consciousness,” is pertinent to the study of community-language relationships
- Gumperz , John J. and Hymes , Dell , eds. 1972 . Directions in Sociolin-guistics: The Ethnography of Communication , New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston . Several articles in this anthology are devoted to community-language relationships
- Halliday , M. A. K. 1975 . Learning How to Mean-Explorations in the Development of Language , London : Elsevier . Culture, “the specifically human environment,” produces language; at the same time, language is our means to culture
- Hymes , Dell . 1974 . Foundations in Sociolinguistics: An Ethnographic Approach , Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania . Essays asserting the necessity of a newer emphasis in linguistics, one that “accepts the social contribution of its subject matter” as essential to an understanding of linguistic variation
- Keller , Joseph . 1977 . Intercommunity Understanding: The Verbal Dimension , Washington, D.C. : University Press . The linguistic mechanism of understanding is examined
- Labov , William . 1972 . Language in the Inner City: Studies in the Black English Vernacular , Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania . Essays demonstrating the patterned varieties of speech to be found within a single speech community
- Labov , William . 1972 . Sociolinguistic Patterns , Philadelphia : Univeristy of Pennsylvania . Speech variation within a community can be understood only if the complex social matrix can be understood
- Pace , Wayne R. , Peterson , Brent D. and Radcliffe , Terrence R. , eds. 1974 . Communicating Interpersonally, a Reader , New York : Merrill . Practical essays on the kind of behaviors influencing effective relationships for personal improvement
- Samovar , Larry A. and Porter , Richard E. , eds. 1976 . Intercultural Communication: A Reader , Belmont, California : Wadsworth . A selection of essays dealing specifically with barriers to intercultural understanding and ways of overcoming those barriers
- Smith , Arthur Lee . 1973 . Transracial Communication , Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey : Prentice Hall . Styles in language, ethnic perspectives, and community symbols affect basic processes of communication