Sista, Speak!

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Black Women Kinfolk Talk about Language and Literacy

Автор: Sonja L. Lanehart

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Издател: University of Texas Press

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The demand of white, affluent society that all Americans should speak, read, and write "proper" Engl...

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Автор

Sonja L. Lanehart

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2002

страници

264

EAN

9780292747296

ISBN

0292747292

Enbook ID

04873710

Издател

University of Texas Press

Теглоt

652

Размери

152 x 229 x 19

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The demand of white, affluent society that all Americans should speak, read, and write "proper" English causes many people who are not white and/or middle class to attempt to "talk in a way that feel peculiar to [their] mind," as a character in Alice Walker's The Color Purple puts it. In this book, Sonja Lanehart explores how this valorization of "proper" English has affected the language, literacy, educational achievements, and self-image of five African American women - her grandmother, mother, aunt, sister, and herself. Through interviews and written statements by each woman, Lanehart draws out the life stories of these women and their attitudes toward and use of language. Making comparisons and contrasts among them, she shows how, even within a single family, differences in age, educational opportunities, and social circumstances can lead to widely different abilities and comfort in using language to navigate daily life. Her research also adds a new dimension to our understanding of African American English, which has been little studied in relation to women.

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