| Description |
1 online resource (260 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Guides to Linguistics Ser |
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Routledge Guides to Linguistics Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) for English in the Continental U.S. -- 1 Talkin and Testifyin -- Introduction: My Subjectivities and Positionalities -- Name a Thing a Thing: About Definitions and Naming -- What to Expect -- Questions, Discussion, and Further Inquiry -- References -- Filmography -- Discography -- Digital Media -- 2 A Seat at the Table: What Are You Bringing to the Table Before We Even Get Started? -- Introduction: Real Talk -- Linguistic Prejudice -- Linguistic Shame and Denial |
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Linguistic Pride and Acceptance -- Contradictions and All -- What You're Not Going to Do: Definitions, Naming, and Pet Peeves -- To HEL-or HEC-and Back: The Messiness of Having the Army and the Navy -- Questions, Discussion, and Further Inquiry -- References -- Filmography -- Discography -- Digital Media -- 3 "Put Some Respeck on My Name!": Language and Uses of Identity in African American Communities -- Introduction: How We Gon Play This? -- Who Do People Say That I Am? -- A Word on Ebonics -- What Does It Feel Like to Be a Problem? -- Say My Name! -- Questions, Discussion, and Further Inquiry |
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Introduction: We Bout to Ride Up on This Elephant -- Why Y'all so Interested in Language Use in African American Communities? -- Patterns, Systems, and Structure, Oh My! -- Lexical Level: Word Classes and Word Formation -- Syntactic Level, Part 1: Verbal Markers -- Syntactic Level, Part 2: From Multiple Negation to Patterns in Question Formation -- Morphosyntactic Level: Inflections -- Phonological Level -- Speech Events, Discourse, Pragmatics, Nonverbal, and Paralinguistic Levels -- Where Does This Leave Us? -- Questions, Discussion, and Further Inquiry -- References -- Digital Media |
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6 Where Your People At?: Regional and Geographic Variation -- Introduction: A New Day Is Dawning -- Gullah Geechee -- Urban and Rural -- CORAAL, et al. -- From Regional to Social Variation -- Questions, Discussion, and Further Inquiry -- References -- Filmography -- Digital Media -- 7 Where My Shawtys At?: Social and Gendered Variation -- Introduction: It's About to Be Lit Up in Here -- Black American Sign Language, or Black ASL -- Standards in Language Use in African American Communities -- Middle-Class Language Use in African American Communities -- African American Women's Language, or AAWL |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Bibliography |
References -- Filmography -- Digital Media -- 4 "Where Your People From?": Problematizing Origins and Development -- Introduction: Controversial History, Development, and Contested Origins -- The Deficit Hypothesis -- (Neo-)Anglicist and (Neo-)Creolist Origins Hypotheses -- Consensus Hypotheses: Substratist, Restructuralist, and Ecological -- The Divergence/Convergence Hypothesis -- My Conclusion: Periodt! -- Questions, Discussion, and Further Inquiry -- References -- Filmography -- Discography -- 5 What's Good?: A Concise Descriptivist Meta-Grammar of Language Use in African American Communities |
| Notes |
Hip Hop Nation Language, or HHNL |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Communication
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African Americans -- Intellectual life
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Black English
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000726367 |
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1000726363 |
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