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African-American English Salikoko S. Mufwene

African-American English By Salikoko S. Mufwene

African-American English by Salikoko S. Mufwene

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This book was the first to provide a comprehensive survey of linguistic research into African-American English and is widely recognised as a classic in the field. This is an essential text for courses on African-American English and an important reference for students of linguistics, black studies and anthropology.

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African-American English: Structure, History, and Use by Salikoko S. Mufwene

*The first book to describe and set out the form, variety and social and educational implications of the variety of English , known as African American English
*The official acknowledgement of AAE as a legitimate variety of English and not Bad English was hugely important following the Oakland school controversy and Ebonics debates, not only for linguists, but educationalists and for the lives of Black people
*Showcases a range of voices and leading authorities covering a wide variety of topics, unlike most other books written by sole authors

African-American English Reviews

Long before #BlackLivesMatter was a hashtag, the contributors to this volume understood, in the 1990s already, that linguistic discrimination against African-American English is one key component in structural violence aka systemic racism against Blacks in the U.S. Each chapter exquisitely documents a particular linguistic, historical or social dimension that makes African-American English a treasure for its speakers and for the community at large. The book as a whole is a roadmap for honoring African Americans and their language-thus honoring the very dignity of our lives and our future. Indeed our Black lives cannot matter if our languages do not matter.

Michel DeGraff, MIT Linguistics, Haiti

As a scholar of African American English, I keep this book within arm's reach at all times! With contributions from some of the central researchers in the field, this book remains a definitive text on the structure, history, and use of African American language. It deserves to be recognized for the classic that it is!

Tracey L. Weldon, The University of South Carolina, USA

About Salikoko S. Mufwene

Salikoko S. Mufwene is the Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor of Linguistics and the College at the University of Chicago. He is the founding editor of Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact.

John R. Rickford is the J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor of Linguistics, Emeritus, at Stanford University. He is Past President of the Linguistic Society of America, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Guy Bailey is a sociolinguist and the first president of the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.

John Baugh is the Margaret Bush Wilson Professor in Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis and president-elect of the Linguistic Society of America.

Table of Contents

List of figures and tables

List of contributors

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Introduction

PART I: Structure

1 The sentence in African-American vernacular English

2 Aspect and predicate phrases in African-American vernacular English

3 The structure of the noun phrase in African-American vernacular English

PART II: History

4 Some aspects of African-American vernacular English phonology

5 Co-existent systems in African-American vernacular English

6 The creole origins of African-American vernacular English: Evidence from copula absence

PART III: Use

7 Word from the hood: The lexicon of African-American vernacular English

8 African-American language use: Ideology and so-called obscenity

9 More than a mood or an attitude: Discourse and verbal genres in African-American culture

10 Linguistics, education, and the law: Educational reform for African-American language minority students

Subject index

Name index

Additional information

NLS9780367760687
9780367760687
0367760681
African-American English: Structure, History, and Use by Salikoko S. Mufwene
Salikoko S. Mufwene
Routledge Linguistics Classics
New
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2021-10-05
352
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