The Sociology of African American Language: A Language Planning Perspective

The current state of knowledge of African American language is examined from a broad, multidisciplinary perspective that includes its structure, history, social role and educational implications, as well as the linguistic scholarship from which it derives, as a case study of language planning. A diverse array of topics including Hip-Hop culture, the Black Church and the Ebonics controversy are unified by a pervasive theme of latent conflict between academic knowledge and 'real world' knowledge of Black language.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Debose, C.
Published: 01/01/2005
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
ISBN: 9781349520107
Pages: 237
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.56d