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African American Female Speech Communities

Author : Barbara H. Hudson
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2001-06-30
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UOM:39015050801037

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African American Female Speech Communities by Barbara H. Hudson Pdf

In this sociolinguistic study, not only are language and gender researched, but the relationship between language and ethnic group, region, and social class is also discussed. Hudson describes the ways in which some female African American writers use the language of African American female characters to reflect their membership in various speech communities. Materials used for this text include slave narratives, novels, short stories, diaries, plays, and autobiographies. The study bridges the gap between the existing research on that focuses on the Vernacular English spoken mainly by young African American males and the research which mainly focuses on the language used by white middle class females. Research in the area of African American English has investigated both its form and its use in conversational interactions. Hudson explores how African American English encompasses a range of dialects from Standard to Vernacular English, noting that there is a diversity of language types present in the African American female speech community. This book offers language researchers, social scientists, educators, and others valuable insights into language use by minority females.

Women in Their Speech Communities

Author : Jennifer Coates,Deborah Cameron
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317901938

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Women in Their Speech Communities by Jennifer Coates,Deborah Cameron Pdf

This collection of essays presents a picture of research on women and language in Britain. The contributors cover a range of British speech communities, linguistic events and settings using approaches from sociolinguistics and discourse analysis.

Language in African American Communities

Author : Sonja Lanehart
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000726367

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Language in African American Communities by Sonja Lanehart Pdf

Language in African American Communities is essential reading for anyone with an interest in the language, culture, and sociohistorical contexts of African American communities. It will also benefit those with a general interest in language and culture, language and language users, and language and identity. This book includes discussions of traditional and non-traditional topics regarding linguistic explorations of African American communities that include difficult conversations around race and racism. Language in African American Communities provides: • an introduction to the sociolinguistic and paralinguistic aspects of language use in African American communities; sociocultural and historical contexts and development; notions about grammar and discourse; the significance of naming and the pall of race and racism in discussions and research of language variation and change; • activities and discussion questions which invite readers to consider their own perspectives on language use in African American communities and how it manifests in their own lives and communities; and • links to relevant videos, stories, music, and digital media that represent language use in African American communities. Written in an approachable, conversational style that uses the author’s native African American (Women’s) Language, this book is aimed at college students and others with little or no prior knowledge of linguistics.

African American Women’s Language

Author : Sonja L. Lanehart
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781527554764

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African American Women’s Language by Sonja L. Lanehart Pdf

African American Women’s Language: Discourse, Education, and Identity is a groundbreaking collection of research on African American Women’s Language that is long overdue. It brings together a range of research including variationist, autoethnography, phenomenological, ethnographic, and critical. The authors come from a variety of disciplines (e.g., Sociology, African American Studies, Africana Studies, Linguistics, Sociophonetics, Sociolinguistics, Anthropology, Literacy, Education, English, Ecological Literature, Film, Hip Hop, Language Variation), scientific paradigms (e.g., critical race theory, narrative, interaction, discursive, variationist, post-structural, and post-positive perspectives), and inquiry methods (e.g., quantitative, qualitative, ethnographic, and multimethod) while addressing a variety of African American female populations (e.g., elementary school, middle school, adults) and activity settings (e.g., classrooms, family, community, church, film). Readers will get a good sense of the language, discourse, identity, community, and grammar of African American women. The essays provide the most current research on African American Women’s Language and expand a literature that has too often only focused on male populations at the expense of letting the sistas speak.

Speech Communities

Author : Marcyliena H. Morgan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107023505

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Speech Communities by Marcyliena H. Morgan Pdf

What makes a speech community? How do they evolve? Speech communities are central to our understanding of how language and interactions occur in society. In this book readers will find an overview of the main concepts and critical arguments surrounding how language and communication styles distinguish and identify groups.

Speaking Out

Author : J. Baxter
Publisher : Springer
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780230522435

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Speaking Out by J. Baxter Pdf

Focusing on the female voice in public contexts, language and gender specialists consider the barriers and opportunities encountered by women in gaining recognition in politics, law, the church, education, business and the media, where people are increasingly judged by their speech and where male and female speech is often evaluated differently.

Sister Citizen

Author : Melissa V. Harris-Perry
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300165418

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Sister Citizen by Melissa V. Harris-Perry Pdf

DIVFrom a highly respected thinker on race, gender, and American politics, a new consideration of black women and how distorted stereotypes affect their political beliefs/div

Discourse as Social Interaction

Author : Teun A Van Dijk,Teun A. van Dijk
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1997-05-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0803978472

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Discourse as Social Interaction by Teun A Van Dijk,Teun A. van Dijk Pdf

The second volume of this introduction to discourse studies focuses on the fundamental interactional, social, political and cultural functions of text and talk, and shows that discourse is not merely form and meaning, but also action.

Sociocultural and Historical Contexts of African American English

Author : Sonja L. Lanehart
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2001-10-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027297983

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Sociocultural and Historical Contexts of African American English by Sonja L. Lanehart Pdf

This volume, based on presentations at a 1998 state of the art conference at the University of Georgia, critically examines African American English (AAE) socially, culturally, historically, and educationally. It explores the relationship between AAE and other varieties of English (namely Southern White Vernaculars, Gullah, and Caribbean English creoles), language use in the African American community (e.g., Hip Hop, women’s language, and directness), and application of our knowledge about AAE to issues in education (e.g., improving overall academic success). To its credit (since most books avoid the issue), the volume also seeks to define the term ‘AAE’ and challenge researchers to address the complexity of defining a language and its speakers. The volume collectively tries to help readers better understand language use in the African American community and how that understanding benefits all who value language variation and the knowledge such study brings to our society.

Language, Discourse and Power in African American Culture

Author : Marcyliena Morgan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2002-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0521001498

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Language, Discourse and Power in African American Culture by Marcyliena Morgan Pdf

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The Oxford Handbook of African American Language

Author : Sonja L. Lanehart
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 945 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199795390

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The Oxford Handbook of African American Language by Sonja L. Lanehart Pdf

Offers a set of diverse analyses of traditional and contemporary work on language structure and use in African American communities.

The Oxford Handbook of Language and Race

Author : H. Samy Alim,Angela Reyes,Paul V. Kroskrity
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780190845995

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The Oxford Handbook of Language and Race by H. Samy Alim,Angela Reyes,Paul V. Kroskrity Pdf

"This handbook is the first volume to offer a sustained theoretical exploration of all aspects of language and race from a linguistic anthropological perspective. A growing number of scholars hold that rather than fixed and pre-determined, race is created out of continuous and repeated discourses emerging from individuals and institutions within specific histories, political economic systems, and everyday interactions. This handbook demonstrates how linguistic analysis brings a crucial perspective to this project by revealing the ways in which language and race are mutually constituted as social realities. Not only do we position issues of race, racism, and racialization as central to language-based scholarship, but we also examine these processes from an explicitly critical and anti-racist perspective. The process of racialization-an enduring yet evolving social process steeped in centuries of colonialism and capitalism-is central to linguistic anthropological approaches. This volume captures state-of-the-art research in this important and necessary yet often overlooked area of inquiry and points the way forward in establishing future directions of research in this rapidly expanding field, including the need for more studies of language and race in non-U.S. contexts. Covering a range of sites from Angola, Brazil, Canada, Cuba, Italy, Liberia, the Philippines, South Africa, the United Kingdom, the United States, and unceded Indigenous territories, the handbook offers theoretical, reflexive takes on the field of language and race, the larger histories and systems that influence these concepts, the bodies that enact and experience them, and finally, the expressions and outcomes that emerge as a result"--

Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice in Translation and Gender Studies

Author : Vanessa Leonardi
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443854146

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Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice in Translation and Gender Studies by Vanessa Leonardi Pdf

The aim of this work is to share information on two very interesting, yet debatable issues within the field of Translation Studies, namely gender and translation, in an attempt to bridge the gap between theory and practice. Given the important relationship between translation and gender since the beginning of the theoretical debate in Feminist Translation Studies, the aim of this edited volume is to determine and analyse how this relationship has been approached in different countries, not only in Europe, but also worldwide. Feminist translation is undoubtedly a very interesting and widespread phenomenon, which includes and combines questions of language, culture, gender, identity and sexual equality. Feminist Translation Studies has established itself as a solid field of research and practice in many countries and its purpose is to reverse the subordinate role of both women and translators in society by challenging and fighting against what is perceived as patriarchal language. There are still numerous issues that can be taken into account when focusing on translation and gender, and this volume intends to be part of a wider discussion on Translation Studies. The volume intends to outline how scholars in various contexts have approached the question of gender and translation, the use/misuse of the term ‘feminist translation’, the problematic issue of bridging the gap between theory and practice, and to open a new discussion on this field of research, which we believe is still a very interesting one to exploit.

Understanding Critical Race Research Methods and Methodologies

Author : Jessica T. DeCuir-Gunby,Thandeka K. Chapman,Paul A. Schutz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351587617

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Understanding Critical Race Research Methods and Methodologies by Jessica T. DeCuir-Gunby,Thandeka K. Chapman,Paul A. Schutz Pdf

Despite the growing urgency for Critical Race Theory (CRT) in the field of education, the "how" of this theoretical framework can often be overlooked. This exciting edited collection presents different methods and methodologies, which are used by education researchers to investigate critical issues of racial justice in education from a CRT perspective. Featuring scholars from a range of disciplines, the chapters showcase how various researchers synthesize different methods—including qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods, and historical and archival research—with CRT to explore issues of equity and access in the field of education. Scholars discuss their current research approaches using CRT and present new models of conducting research within a CRT framework, offering a valuable contribution to ongoing methodological debates. Researchers across different levels of expertise will find the articulations of CRT and methods insightful and compelling.

From the Kitchen to the Parlor

Author : Lanita Jacobs-Huey
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006-04-20
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780195304152

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From the Kitchen to the Parlor by Lanita Jacobs-Huey Pdf

Examines how hair and hair care take on situated social meanings among African American women in varied linguistic interactions--whether with one another, with African American men, or with European American women. Based on years of fieldwork in a range of sites, from cosmetology schools in South Carolina to hair care seminars in Beverly Hills, from stand up comedy clubs in Los Angeles to online debates about black hair, Jacob-Huey's multifaceted approach documents how and why hair comes to matter so much in African American women's construction of their identities, and how language both mediates and produces these social meanings. --From publisher description.