03075oam 2200709Ia 450 991078509750332120231222204300.00-19-772614-31-280-52899-00-19-535538-51-4294-0435-3(CKB)1000000000408154(EBL)272698(OCoLC)476012179(SSID)ssj0000245899(PQKBManifestationID)11211421(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000245899(PQKBWorkID)10181075(PQKB)10532681(Au-PeEL)EBL272698(CaPaEBR)ebr10279297(CaONFJC)MIL52899(OCoLC)466427820(MiAaPQ)EBC272698(EXLCZ)99100000000040815419961120d1998 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierSigns of diaspora/diaspora of signs literacies, creolization, and vernacular practice in African America /Grey GundakerNew York :Oxford University Press,1998.1 online resource (304 pages)The Commonwealth Center studies in American culture0-19-510770-5 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 StatesAfrican AmericansCommunication.African AmericansLanguages.African languagesInfluence on English.Black English.English languageForeign elements.Literacy408/.996073Gundaker Grey1521860MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910785097503321Signs of diaspora3761298UNINA