The Sociology of African American Language: A Language Planning Perspective

by Charles Debose Professor, C Debose, C. DeBose

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349520101
• ISBN13: 9781349520107
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 237 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"