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Author Gilyard, Keith, 1952-

Title Voices of the self : a study of language competence / Keith Gilyard
Published Detroit, Mich. : Wayne State University Press, ©1991

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Description 1 online resource (177 pages) : illustrations
Series African American life
African American life.
Contents Cover -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. First Lessons -- 3. Rapping, Reading, and Role-playing -- Early Language -- Reading Acquisition -- Impression Management -- 4. Semivoices -- 5. Getting Over the Hump -- The Hump -- Gittin Ovuh, Getting Over -- A Transactional View -- Eradicationism, Pluralism, and Bidialectalism -- 6. Big Fame and Other Games -- 7. The Self, Advancing Literacy, and Sidewalk University -- An Advanced Literacy Set -- The Bent-But-Not-Broken Home -- Sidewalk U -- Marva's Way
Thirty-seven Learners -- Reconsidering Labov's Lames -- 8. Valedictory -- 9. Conclusion -- Appendix: Records -- References -- Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-174) and index
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Subject Gilyard, Keith, 1952- -- Childhood and youth
SUBJECT Gilyard, Keith, 1952- fast
Subject Sociolinguistics -- United States
African Americans -- Languages.
African Americans -- Education.
English language -- Social aspects -- United States
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Childhood and youth of a person
African Americans -- Education
African Americans -- Languages
English language -- Social aspects
Sociolinguistics
Sprachfertigkeit
United States
USA
Schwärze
Form Electronic book
LC no. 90024737
ISBN 9780814339114
0814339115