Standard English: Social Control and Individual Freedom
FAIN: FS-10530-77
University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX 78712-0100)
James Sledd (Project Director: January 1977 to present)
To study the history of standard dialects of English, their nature and social functions, and the conditions and consequences of mastering such dialects. Participants will examine case studies of bidialectism, the language of women, language and literature, and the crisis in writing.