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

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (241 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.44/089/96
• Soggetto topico: Black people - Languages; Sociolinguistics - Africa; Sociolinguistics - America
• Altri autori: MakoniSinfree
• Note generali: Errata sheet laid in.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: Enslavement, forced migration, war and colonization have led to the global dispersal of Black communities and to the fragmentation of common experiences.The majority of Black language researchers explore the social and linguistic phenomena of individual Black communities, without looking at Black experiences outside a given community. This groundbreaking collection re-orders the elitist and colonial elements of language studies by drawing together the multiple perspectives of Black language researchers. In doing so, the book recognises and formalises the existence of a ""Black Linguistic P
• Titolo autorizzato: Black linguistics
• ISBN: 1-134-50725-9; 1-134-50726-7; 1-280-40758-1; 0-203-98661-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910783735303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II