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Language in African American communities
1 online resource ( xiii, 245 pages) : color illustrations.
Talkin and testifyin -- A seat at the table: What are you bringing to the table before we even get started? -- "Put some respeck on my name!": language and uses of identity in African American communities -- "Where your people from?:" problematizing origins and development -- What's good? A concise descriptivist meta-grammar of language use in African American communities -- Where your people at?: Regional and geographic variation -- Where my shawty's at? Social and gendered variation -- This is why we can't have nice things: pop culture, social media, and digital media -- It's not the shoes, bruh! You Black!: African American language use in AmeriKKKa's educational apparatU.S. -- "If you don't know me by now ...".
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Sonja Lanehart is Professor of Linguistics; Teaching, Learningand Sociocultural Studies; and Africana Studies at the University of Arizona, USA. Her scholarship focuses on language and education in African American and Black communities; language and identity; sociolinguistics; raciolinguistics;and critical sociolinguistics from Black feminisms, critical race theory, critical discourse analysis, and intersectionality perspectives. She is particularly interested in African American Women's Language and pushing the boundaries of research in sociolinguistics, language variation, and education to be anti-racist, inclusive, diverse, and equitable in the fight for social and linguistic justice. Her publications include Sista, Speak! Black Women Kinfolk Talk about Language and Literacy (2002); African American Women's Language: Discourse, Education, and Identity (ed., 2009); and The Oxford Handbook of African American Language (ed., 2015).
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023