BLACK ENGLISH AND MYTH “THE STANDARD ENGLISH LANGUAGE”
Abstract
The article considers the notion of “the standard English language”, and explains why it cannot be the single, that is “standard”, that should be used for teaching in schools and colleges. The author also gives the examples of Black English, indicating that this dialect has a special grammatical system and follows the certain rules of grammar.
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- Published: October 15, 2013.
Keywords
- литературный английский язык
- диалект
- Black English
- обучение диалекту
- языковой уровень
- грамматические особенности
- Standard English language
- dialect
- teaching dialect
- language level
- grammatical features
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