Black Linguistics: Language, Society and Politics in Africa and the Americas

ISBN-13: 9780415261371 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 240 str.

Ball Arnetha; Sinfree Makoni; Geneva Smitherman

Opis

Enslavement, forced migration, war and colonization have led to the global dispersal of black communities and to the fragmentation of common experiences. The majority of black language researchers explore the social and linguistic phenomena of individual black communities, without looking at black experiences outside a given community.

Recenzje

'This book will be of interest not only to people whose focus is language varieties used by Blacks, but also to those concerned with a critical history of linguistics, to anthropologists and sociolinguists, particularly those working on language policy and planning, variation, and language in education.' - Kay McCormick, University of Cape Town

Spis treści

List of figures and table, Foreword by Ngugi wa Thiong’ o, Introduction: toward Black Linguistics, PART 1 Ideological practices in research on Black languages, PART 2 Conceptualization and status of Black languages, PART 3 Inclusion and exclusion through language, List of contributors, Index

O autorze

Sinfree Makoni is Associate Professor in Linguistics, Applied Language Studies and African American Studies at Penn State University, USA. Geneva Smitherman is University Distinguished Professor of English at Michigan State University, USA, and Director of My Brother's Keeper Program in Detroit. Arthur K. Spears is Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics at the City University of New York, USA. Arnetha Ball is Associate Professor of Education at Stanford University, USA.