{"id":99,"date":"2018-02-20T20:45:34","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T20:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swang.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/code-meshing\/?p=99"},"modified":"2018-07-26T20:20:38","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T20:20:38","slug":"talkin-and-testifyin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swang.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/code-meshing\/in-academia\/talkin-and-testifyin\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Talkin and Testifyin&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Smitherman, G. (1977). <em>Talkin and testifyin: The language of Black America<\/em>. Wayne State University Press.<\/p>\n<p>Find the book at <a href=\"http:\/\/worldcat.org\/isbn\/0814318053\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">worldcat.org\/isbn\/0814318053<\/a><\/p>\n<p>An excerpt:<\/p>\n<p>The most distinctive differences in the structure of Black Dialect are patterns using <em>be <\/em>(sometimes written and pronounced as <em>bees <\/em>or <em>be\u2019s<\/em>). These forms are mainly used to indicate a condition that occurs habitually. <em>Be<\/em> is omitted if the condition or event is not one that is repeated or recurring. For example, <em>The coffee bees cold <\/em>means<em> Every day the coffee\u2019s cold<\/em>, which is different from <em>The coffee cold <\/em>which means <em>Today the coffee\u2019s cold<\/em>. In other words if you the cook and <em>The coffee cold<\/em>, you might only just get talked about that day, but if <em>The coffee bees cold<\/em>, pretty soon you ain\u2019t gon have no job! (Smitherman, 1977, p. 19)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smitherman, G. (1977). Talkin and testifyin: The language of Black America. Wayne State University Press. Find the book at worldcat.org\/isbn\/0814318053 An excerpt: The most distinctive differences in the structure of Black Dialect are patterns using be (sometimes written and pronounced&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/swang.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/code-meshing\/in-academia\/talkin-and-testifyin\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[29,20,47,35,49],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-academia","category-references","tag-academic","tag-aave","tag-books","tag-code-meshing-examples","tag-linguistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swang.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/code-meshing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swang.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/code-meshing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swang.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/code-meshing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swang.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/code-meshing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swang.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/code-meshing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/swang.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/code-meshing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":996,"href":"https:\/\/swang.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/code-meshing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions\/996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swang.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/code-meshing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swang.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/code-meshing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swang.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/code-meshing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swang.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/code-meshing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}