African Amern Vernacular Eng - (Language in Society) by John Russell Rickford (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>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.<br /> <p>Rickford's essays cover the three central areas in which questions continue to come in from teachers, students, linguists, the news media, and interested members of the public: <br /> </p> <ul> <br /> </li> <li>What are the <i>features</i> of AAVE/Ebonics and how is it used?<br /> </li> <li>What is its <i>evolution</i> and where is it headed?<br /> </li> <li>What are its <i>educational</i> implications?</li> </ul> <br /> <p>The answers to these questions are sometimes matters of controversy even within linguistics, the scientific study of language, but Rickford's essays - written between 1975 and 1998 - provide an informed commentary on them based on systematic research rather than the opinionated misinformation that dominated media commentary on Ebonics.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>John Rickford has been studying AAVE for nearly 30 years and is recognized as one of the experts leading the discussion about AAVE and implementing solutions to a number of associated problems. <i>James H. Yang, Language in Society</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>John R. Rickford</b> 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 <i>Dimensions of a Creole Continuum</i> (1987), editor of <i>A Festival of Guyanese Words</i> (1978), <i>Sociolinguistics and Pidgin-Creole Studies</i> (1988), and co-editor of <i>Analyzing Variation in Language</i> (1987).
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