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Subject: Re: Samuel's reviews
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 17:33:50 -0500 (EDT)


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Sam,
What on earth does 'careless racialization of language' sound like anyway? 

>
>dear all
>I just wanted to point out a rather careless racialisation of
>language that appears to take place in the review.  Despite the final
>reference to the "many tongues around primrose hill etc" regional
>location doesn't seem to figure into Samuels' typology: what an earth
>do "white working class English" and "modern black English"  sound
>like?
>Sam.
>Samuel Durrant
>Lecturer, School of English
>Leeds University, Leeds LS2 9JT.
>Tel 0113 233 4768
>
>
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