{"product_id":"african-american-vernacular-english-9780631212454","title":"African American Vernacular English","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn response to the flood of interest in African American Vernacular English (AAVE) following the recent controversy over \"Ebonics,\" this book brings together sixteen essays on the subject by a leading expert in the field, one who has been researching and writing on it for a quarter of a century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"John Rickford has been studying AAVE for nearly 30 years and is recognized as one of the experts leading the discussion about AAVE and implementing solutions to a number of associated problems.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eJames H. Yang, \u003ci\u003eLanguage in Society\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSeries Editor’s Preface. \u003cp\u003ePreface.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eForeword.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Features and Use.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Phonological and Grammatical Features of African American Vernacular English.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Carrying the New Wave into Syntax: The Case of Black English BIN.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Preterit Had+ V- ed in the Narratives of African American Adolescents: with Christine Theberge Rafal.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Rappin on the Copula Coffin: Theoretical and Methodological Issues in the Analysis of Copula variation in African American Vernacular English: with Arnetha Ball, Renée Blake, Raina Jackson, and Nomi.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMartin I.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Ethnicity as a Sociolinguistic Boundary.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Addressee- and Topic-Influenced Style Shift: A Quantitative Sociolinguistic Study: with Faye McNair-Knox.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Evolution.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Cut-Eye and Suck-Teeth: African Words and Gestures in New World Guise: with Angela E. Rickford.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Social Contact and Linguistic Diffusion: Hiberno English and New World Black English.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Copula Variability in Jamaican Creole and African American Vernacular English: A Reanalysis of DeCamp's Texts.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Prior Creolization of AAVE? Sociohistorical and Textual Evidence from the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. Are Black and White Vernaculars Diverging?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. Grammatical Variation and Divergence in Vernacular Black English.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Educational Implications.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. Attitudes Toward AAVE, and Classroom Implications and Strategies. 14. Unequal Partnership; Sociolinguistics and the African American Speech Community.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15. Suite for Ebony and Phonics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16. Using the Vernacular to Teach the Standard.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403423392087,"sku":"9780631212454","price":43.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780631212454.jpg?v=1730483427","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/african-american-vernacular-english-9780631212454","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}