Title:
Black linguistics : language, society, and politics in Africa and the Americas / edited by Sinfree Makoni ... [et al.] ; foreword by Ngنugنi wa Thiong®o.
Author:
Makoni, Sinfree.
General Notes:
Errata sheet laid in., Errata sheet laid in.
Publisher:
Routledge,
Publication Place:
London ; New York :
ISBN:
0415261376
0415261384 (pbk.)
Subject:
BLACKS -- LANGUAGES.
SOCIOLINGUISTICS -- AFRICA.
SOCIOLINGUISTICS -- AMERICA.
Contents:
Ideologies of language and socially realistic linguistics / Donald Winford -- "We are the streets" : African American language and the strategic construction of a street conscious identity / H. Samy Alim -- Sound and power : the language of the Rastafari / Velma Pollard -- Promoting African languages as conveyors of knowledge in educational institutions / Zaline M. Roy-Campbell -- Language policies and language education in francophone Africa : a critique and a call to action / Hassana Alidou -- Contradiction or affirmation? The South African language policy and the South African national government / Nkhelebeni Phaswana -- From misinvention to disinvention of language : multilingualism and the South African constitution / Sinfree Makoni -- Linguistic profiling / John Baugh -- "Whassup, homeboy?" Joining the African Diaspora : black English as a symbolic site of identification and language learning / Awad el Karim M. Ibrahim -- US and South African teachers' developing perspectives on language and literacy : changing domestic and international roles of linguistic gate-keepers / Arnetha F. Ball.
Physical Description:
xii, 228 p. : ill. ;
Electronic Location:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0650/2004541030-d.html
Publication Date:
2003.
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