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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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- The Sociology of African American Language
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Linguists as Visionaries
- 2 If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It: Toward a Policy of Full Recognition of African American Language
- 3 A Language Planning Approach to African American Language
- 4 What’s 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
- Index