African Amern Vernacular Eng by Rickford, John Russell

African Amern Vernacular Eng (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780631212454)

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African Amern Vernacular Eng by Rickford, John Russell

African Amern Vernacular Eng

$72.95
African Amern Vernacular Eng by Rickford, John Russell

African Amern Vernacular Eng

$72.95
Format: Paperback
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In response to the flood of interest in African American Vernacular English (AAVE) following the recent controversy over "Ebonics," this book brings together sixteen essays on the subject by a leading expert in the field, one who has been researching and writing on it for a quarter of a century.



Author: John Russell Rickford
ISBN-10: 0631212450
ISBN-13: 9780631212454
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English
Published: 07/09/1999
Pages: 428
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 8.99h x 6.02w x 0.91d
By John Russell Rickford
By John Russell Rickford
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John R. Rickford is the Martin Luther King Centennial Professor of Linguistics and African and Afro-American Studies at Stanford University. He is also the Director of the thirty-year-old degree-granting Program in African and Afro-American Studies, and President of the International Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles, and several books, including Dimensions of a Creole Continuum (1987), editor of A Festival of Guyanese Words (1978), Sociolinguistics and Pidgin-Creole Studies (1988), and co-editor of Analyzing Variation in Language (1987).

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