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The Sociology of African American Language : A Language Planning Perspective /

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 div...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: DeBose, Charles (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Subjects:
Social Sciences.
African American Culture.
Anthropology.
Cultural Studies.
Multilingualism.
Sociolinguistics.
Sociology, general.
African Americans.
Culture > Study and teaching.
Popular culture > Study and teaching.
Social sciences.
Sociology.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary: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.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (VIII, 237 pages)
ISBN:9780230502086
DOI:10.1057/9780230502086