African American women's language : discourse, education and identity / edited by Sonja L. Lanehart.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lanehart, Sonja L., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American women--Language.

African American women.

English language--United States--Discourse analysis.

English language.

English language--Sex differences--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiii, 310 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, [2009]

Summary:

African American Women's Language: Discourse, Education, and Identity is a groundbreaking collection of research on African American Women's Language that is long overdue. It brings together a range of research including variationist, autoethnography, phenomenological, ethnographic, and critical. The authors come from a variety of disciplines (e.g., Sociology, African American Studies, Africana Studies, Linguistics, Sociophonetics, Sociolinguistics, Anthropology, Literacy, Education, English, Ecological Literature, Film, Hip Hop, Language Variation), scientific paradigms (e.g., critical race theory, narrative, interaction, discursive, variationist, post-structural, and post-positive perspectives), and inquiry methods (e.g., quantitative, qualitative, ethnographic, and multimethod) while addressing a variety of African American female populations (e.g., elementary school, middle school, adults) and activity settings (e.g., classrooms, family, community, church, film). Readers will get a good sense of the language, discourse, identity, community, and grammar of African American women. The essays provide the most current research on African American Women's Language and expand a literature that has too often only focused on male populations at the expense of letting the sistas speak.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Contributors

Introduction

Part One: Language and Identity

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Part Two: Discourse, Grammar, and Variation

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Part Three: Film and Literature

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Part Four: Performance and Community

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-5275-5476-7

OCLC:

1311931531