Marcyliena H. Morgan

Language, Discourse and Power in African American Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

Covers the entire field of African American language in the United States.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. April 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 298g
• ISBN-13: 9780521001496
• ISBN-10: 0521001498
• Artikelnr.: 22141438

Autorenporträt

Marcyliena Morgan is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research has focused on language, culture and identity, sociolinguistics, discourse and interaction, and she is the editor of Language and the Social Construction of Identity in Creole Situations.

Inhaltsangabe

List of maps, figures and tables
Acknowledgments
Notes on the transcriptions
Introduction
1. The African American speech community: culture, language ideology and social face
2. Forms of speech: verbal styles, discourse and interaction
3. Language norms and practices
4. When women speak: how and why we enter
5. Urban youth language: black by popular demand
6. Language, discourse and power: outing schools
Notes
References
Index.