Black Linguistics

Language, Society and Politics in Africa and the Americas

By: Arnetha Ball, Sinfree Makoni, Geneva Smitherman

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Paperback | 19 December 2002 | Edition Number 1

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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 Perspective" highlights the contributions of Black language researchers in the field.
Written exclusively by Black scholars on behalf of, and in collaboration with local communities, the book looks at the commonalities and differences among Black speech communities in Africa and the Diaspora. Topics include:
* the OJ Simpson trial
* language issues in Southern Africa and Francophone West Africa
* the language of Hip Hop
* the language of the Rastafaria in Jamaica
With a foreword by Ngugi wa Thiong'o, this is essential reading for anyone with an interest in the linguistic implications of colonization.

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'This book will be of interest not only to people whose focus is language varieties used by Blacks, but also to those concerned with a critical history of linguistics, to anthropologists and sociolinguists, particularly those working on language policy and planning, variation, and language in education.' - Kay McCormick, University of Cape Town

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Ideological Practices in Research on Black Languages	p. 19
Ideologies of Language and Socially Realistic Linguistics	p. 21
"We Are the Streets": African American Language and the Strategic Construction of a Street Conscious Identity	p. 40
Sound and Power: the Language of the Rastafari	p. 60
Conceptualization and Status of Black Languages	p. 81
Promoting African Languages as Conveyors of Knowledge in Educational Institutions	p. 83
Language Policies and Language Education in Francophone Africa: a Critique and a Call to Action	p. 103
Contradiction or Affirmation? the South African Language Policy and the South African National Government	p. 117
From Misinvention to Disinvention of Language: Multilingualism and the South African Constitution	p. 132
Inclusion and Exclusion Through Language	p. 153
Linguistic Profiling	p. 155
"Whassup, Homeboy?" Joining the African Diaspora: Black English as a Symbolic Site of Identification and Language Learning	p. 169
Us and South African Teachers' Developing Perspectives on Language and Literacy: Changing Domestic and International Roles of Linguistic Gate-Keepers	p. 186
Contributors	p. 215
Index	p. 221
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