{"product_id":"language-in-african-american-communities-9781138189706","title":"Language in African American Communities","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLanguage in African American Communities\u003c\/em\u003e is essential reading for anyone with an interest in the language, culture, and sociohistorical contexts of African American communities. It will also benefit those with a general interest in language and culture, language and language users, and language and identity. This book includes discussions of traditional and non-traditional topics regarding linguistic explorations of African American communities that include difficult conversations around race and racism. \u003ci\u003eLanguage in African American Communities\u003c\/i\u003e provides:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e an introduction to the sociolinguistic and paralinguistic aspects of language use in African American communities; sociocultural and historical contexts and development; notions about grammar and discourse; the significance of naming and the pall of race and racism in discussions and research of language variation and change;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e activities and discussion questions which invite readers to consider their own\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a splendid book, fully recognizing that language is a social, cultural, psychological, grammatical, homeland-based, and historical package. \u003ci\u003eLanguage in African American Communities\u003c\/i\u003e is brimming with the worldview, turns-of-phrase, and even the musical backdrop of our Blacktalk, which is permeated with the feelings, perspectives, and positionalities of its lifelong speakers. You can speak AAL grammatically, but that doesn’t mean you can Blacktalk. Sonja L. Lanehart in this book generously presents an introduction to Ebonics as a form of language, action, and social being.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArthur K. Spears, Presidential Professor of Linguistics and Anthropology Emeritus, The City University of New York\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo one is better qualified to write this book than Sonja Lanehart, the Queen of innovative research and publication on language in African American communities over the past two decades! I wish I were still teaching to take advantage of Sonja’s lively personal style, her professional insights and her thought-provoking questions following each chapter!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn R. Rickford, J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor of Humanities, Dept of Linguistics, emeritus, Stanford University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Tables and Figures\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInternational Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) for English in the Continental U.S.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1: Talkin and Testifyin \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: My Subjectivities and Positionalities\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eName a Thing a Thing: About Definitions and Naming\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat to Expect\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eQuestions, Discussion, and Further Inquiry\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReferences\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFilmography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiscography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDigital Media\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2: A Seat at the Table: What Are You Bringing to the Table Before We Even Get Started? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Real Talk\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLinguistic Prejudice\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLinguistic Shame and Denial\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLinguistic Pride and Acceptance\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContradictions and All\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat You’re Not Going to Do: Definitions, Naming, and Pet Peeves\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo HEL—or HEC—and Back: The Messiness of Having the Army and the Navy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eQuestions, Discussion, and Further Inquiry\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReferences\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFilmography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiscography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDigital Media\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3: \"Put Some Respeck on My Name!\": Language and Uses of Identity in African American Communities\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: How We Gon Play This?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWho Do People Say That I Am?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Word on Ebonics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat Does It Feel Like to Be a Problem?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSay My Name!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eQuestions, Discussion, and Further Inquiry\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReferences\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFilmography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDigital Media\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4: \"Where Your People From?:\" Problematizing Origins and Development\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Controversial History, Development, and Contested Origins\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Deficit Hypothesis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e(Neo–)Anglicist and (Neo–)Creolist Origins Hypotheses\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConsensus Hypotheses: Substratist, Restructuralist, and Ecological\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Divergence\/Convergence Hypothesis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy Conclusion: PeriodT!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eQuestions, Discussion, and Further Inquiry\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReferences\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFilmography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiscography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5: What’s Good? A Concise Descriptivist Meta–Grammar of Language Use in African American Communities\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: We Bout to Ride Up on This Elephant\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy Y’all so Interested in Language Use in African American Communities?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePatterns, Systems, and Structure, Oh My!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLexical Level: Word Classes and Word Formation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSyntactic Level, Part 1: Verbal Markers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSyntactic Level, Part 2: From Multiple Negation to Patterns in Question Formation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMorphosyntactic Level: Inflections\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhonological Level\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpeech Events, Discourse, Pragmatics, Nonverbal, and Paralinguistic Levels\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhere Does This Leave Us?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eQuestions, Discussions, and Further Inquiry\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReferences\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDigital Media\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6: Where Your People At?: Regional and Geographic Variation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: A New Day Is Dawning\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGullah Geechee\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUrban and Rural \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCORAAL, et al.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Regional to Social Variation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eQuestions, Discussion, and Further Inquiry\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReferences\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFilmography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDigital Media\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7: Where My Shawty’s At? Social and Gendered Variation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: It’s about to Be Lit Up in Here\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlack American Sign Language, or Black ASL\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStandards in Language Use in African American Communities\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMiddle–Class Language Use in African American Communities\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfrican American Women’s Language, or AAWL\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHip Hop Nation Language, or HHNL\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSexuality and Gendered Identity in Language Use in African American Communities\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eQuestions, Discussion, and Further Inquiry\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReferences\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFilmography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiscography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDigital Media\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8: This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Pop Culture, Social Media, and Digital Media \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Whatcha Know Good?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfrofuturism and Ebonics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYa Man, Steve Harvey: Blacktainment Extraordinaire\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Queen of Soul to Spoken Soul\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlack Twitter and Language Use in African American Communities\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDigital Media and the Performance of Language Use in African American Communities\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI Refuse to Eat the Cake\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eQuestions, Discussion, and Further Inquiry\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReferences\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFilmography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiscography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDigital Media\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9: It’s Not the Shoes, Bruh! You Black!: African American Language Use in AmeriKKKa’s Educational ApparatU.S.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: That’s the Way of the World\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow and When We Enter White Educational Spaces … and Some Definitions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe Ain’t Havin It!: Let’s Get on the Good Foot\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe Come from a Remarkable People\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Research: Language and Linguistic Justice for Black Children\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLanguage of Black America on Trial: The Ann Arbor \"Black English\" Trial and the Oakland Ebonics Controversy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs My Dad Would Say, \"Stop Pussyfootin Roun the Issue:\" Because Racism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eQuestions and Further Inquiry\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReferences\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFilmography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiscography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDigital Media\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 10: \"If You Don’t Know Me by Now …\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: You Cain’t Do Wrong and Get By\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThings I Didn’t Discuss that You Might Consider\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhatcha Know Good?: What I Hope You Did, Learned, and Hope to Do\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eQuestions, Discussion, and Further Inquiry\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReferences\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiscography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019462115671,"sku":"9781138189706","price":22.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781138189706.jpg?v=1750780347","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/language-in-african-american-communities-9781138189706","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}