The Sociology of African American Language: A Language Planning Perspective

By Charles 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 academic knowledge and 'real world' knowledge of Black language.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403939705
• ISBN13: 9781403939708
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 237 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.6"