Oxford University Press, 2012. — 224 p. Barack Obama is widely considered one of the most powerful and charismatic speakers of our age. Without missing a beat, he often moves between Washington insider talk and culturally Black ways of speaking--as shown in a famous YouTube clip, where Obama declined the change offered to him by a Black cashier in a Washington, D.C. restaurant...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 82 р. This Element uses data from the Springville Project to explore how the functions of the inherited forms invariant be (from English sources) and zero (from creolization) have transformed during the twentieth century. Originally just alternative present tense copula/auxiliary forms, both features developed into aspectual markers –...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. — viii, 237 p. — ISBN13: 978–1–4039–3970–8. Linguists as Visionaries If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It: Toward a Policy of Full Recognition of African American Language A Language Planning Approach to African American Language What’s in a Name? Where did African American Language Come from? Language in the African Diaspora: The Case of Samaná English The...
Cambridge University Press, 2002. - 298 p.
ISBN-13: 978-0-521- 89138-7 paperback
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This authoritative introduction to African American English (AAE) is the first textbook to look at the grammar as a whole. Clearly organised, it describes patterns in the sentence structure, sound system, word formation and word use in AAE. The...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 945 pp. The goal of the Oxford Handbook of African American Language (OHAAL) is to provide readers with a wide range of analyses of both traditional and contemporary work on language use in African American communities in a broad collective. OHAAL offers a survey of language and its uses in African American communities from a wide range of...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2001. — 392 p. — (Varieties of English Around the World G27). University of Georgia, critically examines African American English (AAE) socially, culturally, historically, and educationally. It explores the relationship between AAE and other varieties of English (namely Southern White Vernaculars, Gullah, and Caribbean English creoles),...
Routledge, 2022. — 259 p. Language in African American Communities is essential reading for anyone with an interest in the language, culture, and socio-historical contexts of African American communities. It will also benefit those with a general interest in language and culture, language and language users, and language and identity. This book includes discussions of...
Cambridge University Press, 2003. — xiv, 181. — (Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language). — ISBN: 0-521-80671-2; ISBN: 0-521-00149-8. African American language is central to the teaching of linguistics and language in the United States, and this book covers the entire field--grammar, speech, and verbal genres. It also reveals the various historical strands...
Routledge, 2022. — 369 p. — (Routledge Linguistics Classics). — ISBN 9780367760687, 0367760681, 9780367760724, 036776072X. This book was the first to provide a comprehensive survey of linguistic research into African-American English and is widely recognised as a classic in the field. It covers both the main linguistic features, in particular the grammar, phonology, and lexicon...
Routledge, 2022. — 369 p. — (Routledge Linguistics Classics). — ISBN 9780367760687, 0367760681, 9780367760724, 036776072X. This book was the first to provide a comprehensive survey of linguistic research into African-American English and is widely recognised as a classic in the field. It covers both the main linguistic features, in particular the grammar, phonology, and lexicon...
Wiley, 2000. — 288 p. Claude Brown called Black English ""Spoken Soul."" Toni Morrison said, ""It's a love, a passion. Its function is like a preacher’s: to make you stand out of your seat, make you lose yourself and hear yourself. The worst of all possible things that could happen would be to lose that language." Now renowned linguist John R. Rickford and journalist Russell J....
Routledge, 2021. — 232 p. This classic text by Geneva Smitherman, pioneering scholar of Black Talk, is a definitive statement on African American Language (AAL). Enriched by her inimitable writing style, the book outlines past debates on the speech of African Americans and provides a vision for the future. As global manifestations of AAL increase, she argues that we must...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 314 p. — ISBN: 1107074177 In this pioneering exploration of African American slang - a highly informal vocabulary and a significant aspect of African American English - Maciej Widawski explores patterns of form, meaning, theme and function, showing it to be a rule-governed, innovative and culturally revealing vernacular. Widawski's...
Blackwell Publishers Ltd, 2002. — 258 p. This book is an example of the linguistic study of language in society at its best. Wolfram, Thomas, and their associates have produced a superb work in what we might perhaps call linguistic archaeology. By dint of highly professional fieldwork in a hitherto uninvestigated enclave community, and by virtue of careful and detailed quantitative...
Teachers College Press, 2014. — 176 pages. — ISBN: 978-0-8077-7253-9. This book presents an empirically grounded argument for a new approach of teaching writing to diverse students in the English language arts classroom. Responding to advocates of the code-switching approach, four uniquely qualified authors make the case for code-meshing–allowing students to use standard...
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