ISBN:
9780230502086
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (246 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.4408996073
Keywords:
African Americans -- Languages
;
Black English
;
Electronic books. -- local
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English language -- Social aspects -- United States
;
English language -- Variation -- United States
;
Language planning -- United States
;
Black English
;
Soziolinguistik
;
USA
;
USA
;
Black English
;
Soziolinguistik
Abstract:
The current state of knowledge of African American language is examined from a broad, multidisciplinary perspective that includes its structure, history, social role and educational implications, as well as the linguistic scholarship from which it derives, as a case study of language planning. A diverse array of topics including Hip-Hop culture, the Black Church and the Ebonics controversy are unified by a pervasive theme of latent conflict between academic knowledge and 'real world' knowledge of Black language
Description / Table of Contents:
"Cover" -- "The Sociology of African American Language" -- "Dedication" -- "Contents " -- "Acknowledgments" -- "Introduction" -- "1 Linguists as Visionaries" -- "2 If It Ainât Broke, Donât Fix It: Toward a Policy of Full Recognition of African American Language" -- "3 A Language Planning Approach to African American Language" -- "4 Whatâs in a Name?" -- "5 Where did African American Language Come from?" -- "6 Language in the African Diaspora: The Case of Samaná English" -- "7 The Language Situation in the African American Speech Community: The Status of Variety X" -- "8 Cross-Over: From African American to National and World Culture" -- "9 Ebonics and Black School Achievement: The Language Difference Hypothesis" -- "10 The Grammar: We Be Following Rules" -- "11 The Standardization of African American Language" -- "References"
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