03126nam 2200721Ia 450 991045148960332120200520144314.01-280-52899-00-19-535538-51-4294-0435-3(CKB)1000000000408154(EBL)272698(OCoLC)476012179(SSID)ssj0000245899(PQKBManifestationID)11211421(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000245899(PQKBWorkID)10181075(PQKB)10532681(MiAaPQ)EBC272698(Au-PeEL)EBL272698(CaPaEBR)ebr10279297(CaONFJC)MIL52899(OCoLC)466427820(EXLCZ)99100000000040815419961120d1998 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSigns of diaspora/diaspora of signs[electronic resource] literacies, creolization, and vernacular practice in African America /Grey GundakerNew York Oxford University Press19981 online resource (304 p.)The Commonwealth Center studies in American cultureDescription based upon print version of record.0-19-510770-5 0-19-510769-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-278) and index.Contents; 1 Introduction: ""Conventional"" Literacy and ""Vernacular"" Practice; 2 Creolization, Double Voicing, Double Vision; 3 African Scripts, Graphic Practices, and Contexts of Learning and Use; 4 Diaspora of Signs: A Transatlantic Network; 5 Narratives of Literacy Acquisition and Use; 6 Alternative Modes of Participation with Text and Artifacts of Literacy; 7 Contrasting and Complementary Scripts and Graphic Signs; Notes; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; YThis text looks at the roots of African-American reading and writing from the perspective of vernacular activities and creolization. It demonstrates that African-Americans, while utilizing the conventions and canons of Euro-America, drew on knowledge of their own to make oppositional meanings.Commonwealth Center studies in American culture.African AmericansCommunicationAfrican AmericansLanguagesAfrican languagesInfluence on EnglishBlack EnglishEnglish languageUnited StatesForeign elementsLiteracyUnited StatesElectronic books.African AmericansCommunication.African AmericansLanguages.African languagesInfluence on English.Black English.English languageForeign elements.Literacy408/.996073Gundaker Grey1037808MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451489603321Signs of diaspora2458996UNINA