monodialectical

[Fred Shapiro]

> on 2/6/02 10:35 AM, Pamela Roper Wagner at prwagn at TOAD.NET wrote:
>
> > Where would you look for the first use of this term?
> >
> > Pamela Wagner
> > Researcher, OED

One method would be to search databases of historical texts likely to
yield usages of this term.  There is not much in the way of online
linguistic literature, but I searched JSTOR and Questia.  Here is the
earliest I came up with:

1971 Geneva Smitherman in _Negro American Literature Forum_ V. 116  As
these super niggers become more and more immersed in white, middle class
culture, they will eventually become mono-dialectal.


Fred Shapiro


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