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Black linguistics : language, society, and politics in Africa and the Americas / edited by Sinfree Makoni ... [et al.] ; foreword by Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.Description: xii, 228 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0415261376
  • 0415261384 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.44/089/96 22
LOC classification:
  • P40.5 BLA 2003
Online resources:
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.
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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.

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