| Description |
xii, 228 p. : ill. |
| Note |
Errata sheet laid in. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Blacks -- Languages.
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Sociolinguistics -- Africa.
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Sociolinguistics -- America.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Makoni, Sinfree.
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
0415261376 |
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0415261384 (pbk.) |
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