Marcyliena H Morgan

Speech Communities

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Speech Communities presents the main concepts and critical arguments surrounding how language and communication styles distinguish and identify groups.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9781107023505
• ISBN-10: 1107023505
• Artikelnr.: 40558351

Autorenporträt

Marcyliena Morgan is Professor in the Department of African and African-American Studies at Harvard University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. What are speech communities?
2. Representing speech communities
3. Constructing speech communities
4. The African-American speech community
5. Youth communities: the hip-hop nation
6. Voice and empowerment in gender and sexuality
7. Online speech communities
8. Language in and out of the classroom
9. Performance and play in speech communities
10. Power, ideology and prejudice.