deliberate misspellings

[Dennis R. Preston]

Leslie,

Journal of Sociolinguistics is published by Blackwell Publishers
(Oxford, UK). Any university library will have it (or it's not a
university!). Public libraries may lack it, of course. It's 4/4 2000.

Dennis

>Dennis R. Preston wrote:
>>
>>  Look at Journal of Sociolinguistics 4/4, a special issue on
>>  nonstandard orthography.
>>
>>  dInIs
>>
>>  >Has anyone written about deliberate misspellings and letter
>>  >substitutions, especially in Hip Hop-influenced culture? I'm not
>>  >asking about "eye dialect" (at least I don't think I am), but
>>  >rather, for example, about substituting Z for S (skillz, boyz) and
>>  >other kinds of respellings (stoopid, sucka). Companies have been
>>  >doing this for years to gain attention (from Beanz Meanz Heinz to
>>  >Miller Lite), but has anyone looked into the history of deliberate
>>  >misspellings in Hip Hop and possibly in earlier AAVE?
>>
>>  --
>>  Dennis R. Preston
>>  Department of Linguistics and Languages
>>  Michigan State University
>>  East Lansing MI 48824-1027 USA
>>  preston at pilot.msu.edu
>>  Office: (517)353-0740
>>  Fax: (517)432-2736
>Thanks for the tip (the most useful one in the bunch). Is that 4/4 2001?
>Also, I'm having a little trouble tracking this journal down--any idea
>where it's published? (My local library couldn't find it on an initial
>computer search.)
>       Thanks again....Leslie Savan

--
Dennis R. Preston
Department of Linguistics and Languages
Michigan State University
East Lansing MI 48824-1027 USA
preston at pilot.msu.edu
Office: (517)353-0740
Fax: (517)432-2736