Geneva Smitherman

Talkin that Talk

Language, Culture and Education in African America

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Produktbeschreibung

A highly readable collection of key articles and essays by a leading scholar on African American language and politics. Discussing the inter-relationship between African American language, culture and education, Talkin' that Talk is divided into sections, each introduced by the author, which include: * African American language and education * Language theory, research and the Black intellectual tradition * Black language and culture * Black women's discourse * Language policy and global multilingualism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 476
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 717g
• ISBN-13: 9780415208659
• ISBN-10: 0415208653
• Artikelnr.: 22190736

Autorenporträt

Geneva Smitherman is an established writer and key commentator on African American language and culture. She has forged a writing style which combines academic discourse and African American English which has become widely celebrated for efficacy in making the medium the message. Her previous publications include Talkin and Testifyin and Black Talk and she is a contributor to African American English

Inhaltsangabe

Preface INTRODUCTION: FROM GHETTO LADY TO CRITICAL LINGUIST Part one
EBONICS, LANGUAGE THEORY, AND RESEARCH 1 Introduction to Ebonics 2 From
African to African American 3 White English in Blackface, Or, Who Do I Be?
4 Discriminatory Discourse on African American Speech 5 "A New Way of
Talkin'": Language, Social Change, and Political Theory 6 Review of Noam
Chomsky's Language and Responsibility Part two LANGUAGE AND THE EDUCATION
OF AFRICAN AMERICANS 7 English Teacher, Why You Be Doing the Thangs You
Don't Do? 8 "What Go Round Come Round": King in Perspective 9 Ebonics,
King, and Oakland: Some Folk Don't Believe Fat Meat is Greasy 10 African
American Student Writers in the NAEP, 1969-88/89 and "The Blacker the
Berry, the Sweeter the juice" Part three LANGUAGE AND CULTURE 11 "How I Got
Ovuh": African World View and African American Oral Tradition 12 "If I'm
Lyin, I'm Flyin": The Game of Insult in Black Language 13 "Makin a Way Outa
No Way": The Proverb Tradition in the Black Experience 14 Testifyin,
Sermonizin, and Signifyin: Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the African
American Verbal Tradition 15 "The Chain Remain the Same": Communicative
Practices in the Hip Hop Nation Part four LANGUAGE POLICY, POLITICS, AND
POWER 16 African Americans and "English Only" 17 The "Mis-Education of the
Negro"-and You Too 18 Language and Democracy in the USA and the RSA 19
Review of Multilingual Education for South Africa, Part five COLUMNS 20
Soul 'N Style 21 Black English: So Good It's "Bad" 22 "Still I Rise":
Education Against the Odds in Cuba Part six THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES 23 CCCC
and the "Students' Right To Their Own Language".