The Sociology of African American Language: A Language Planning Perspective

The current state of knowledge of African American language is examined from a broad, multidisciplinary perspective that includes its structure, history, social role and educational implications, as well as the linguistic scholarship from which it derives, as a case study of language planning. A diverse array of topics including Hip-Hop culture, the Black Church and the Ebonics controversy are unified by a pervasive theme of latent conflict between academic knowledge and 'real world' knowledge of Black language.Binding Type: HardcoverAuthor: Debose, C.Published: 12/13/2005Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanISBN: 9781403939708Pages: 237Weight: 1.00lbsSize: 8.60h x 5.80w x 0.90d