John Baugh

Out of the Mouths of Slaves

African American Language and Educational Malpractice

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Produktbeschreibung

Winner, A Choice Outstanding Academic Book When the Oakland, California, school board called African American English "Ebonics" and claimed that it "is not a black dialect or any dialect of English," they reignited a debate over language, race, and culture that reaches back to the era of slavery in the United States. In this book, John Baugh, an authority on African American English, sets new parameters for the debate by dissecting and challenging many of the prevailing myths about African American language and its place in American society. Baugh's inquiry ranges from the origins of African American English among slaves and their descendants to its recent adoption by standard English speakers of various races. Some of the topics he considers include practices and malpractices for educating language minority students, linguistic discrimination in the administration of justice, cross-cultural communication between Blacks and whites, and specific linguistic aspects of African American English. This detailed overview of the main points of debate about African American language will be important reading for both scholars and the concerned public.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 349g
• ISBN-13: 9780292708730
• ISBN-10: 0292708734
• Artikelnr.: 21444743

Autorenporträt

By John Baugh

Inhaltsangabe

1. Foreword by William Labov
2. Preface
3. Acknowledgments
4. Part 1. Orientation
* 1. Some Common Misconceptions about African American Vernacular
English
* 2. Language and Race: Some Implications of Bias for Linguistic
Science
5. Part 2. The Relevance of African American Vernacular English to Education
and Social Policies
* 3. Why What Works Has Not Worked for Nontraditional Students
* 4. Reading, Writing, and Rap: Lyric Shuffle and Other Motivational
Strategies to Introduce and Reinforce Literacy
* 5. Educational Malpractice and the Ebonics Controversy
* 6. Linguistic Discrimination and American justice
6. Part 3. Cross-cultural Communication in Social Context
* 7. The Politics of Black Power Handshakes
* 8. Changing Terms of Self-reference among American Slave Descendants
7. Part 4. Linguistic Dimensions of African American Vernacular English
* 9. Steady: Progressive Aspect in African American Vernacular English
* 10. Come Again: Discourse Functions in African American Vernacular
English
* 11. Hypocorrection: Mistakes in the Production of African American
Vernacular English as a Second Dialect
* 12. Linguistic Perceptions in Black and White: Racial Identification
Based on Speech
8. Part 5. Conclusion
* 13. Research Trends for African American Vernacular English:
Anthropology, Education, and Linguistics
9. Notes
10. Glossary
11. References
12. Index