Talkin and testifyin : the language of Black America / Geneva Smitherman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smitherman, Geneva, 1940-

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black English.

African Americans--Languages.

African Americans.

Americanisms.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (bookplate) (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

12 unnumbered pages, 291 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1977.

Contents:

From Africa to the New World and into the Space Age: Introduction and History of Black English Structure

"It Bees Dat Way Sometime": Sounds and Structure of Present-Day Black English

Black Semantics: Words and Concepts in Black English, Past and Present

"How I Got Ovuh": African World View and Afro-American Oral Tradition

"The Forms of Things Unknown": Black Modes of Discourse

Where It's At: Black-White Language Attitudes

Where Do We Go from Here? T.C.B.!: Social Policy and Educational Practice

Appendix A. Some Well-Known Black Proverbs and Sayings

Appendix B. Get Down Exercises on Black English Sounds and Structure

Appendix C. Black Semantics-A Selected Glossary.

Notes:

"Front jacket photograph by Todd Tarbox."

Includes bibliographical references (pages [269]-280) and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

Banks Collection copy has bookplate of Joanna Banks.

ISBN:

0395253551 :

OCLC:

2911934