dialect in novels

[Laurence Horn]

At 2:03 PM -0600 2/22/01, Matthew Gordon wrote:
>My usage of "mock Ebonics" was probably influenced by the
>interesting Journal of
>Sociolinguistics article that appeared a while back.
>     Ronkin, Maggie & Helen E. Karn (1999) Mock Ebonics: Linguistic racism in
>parodies of Ebonics on the Internet, Journal of Sociolinguistics, 3.3: 360-80.

Ah, thanks for the reference.  The authors presented and circulated
the paper at the ADS meeting a few years ago but with the request "Do
Not Circulate", and I forgot to check with them later to see if it
had been published.  I'm glad to see it has been--it's a very nice
paper and most suitable for classroom use.

larry