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Pages: 246
Authors: Theresa Perry
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In the winter of 1996, the Oakland school board's resolution recognizing Ebonics as a valid linguistic system generated a brief firestorm of hostile criticism a
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-01-01 - Publisher: Multilingual Matters

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This collection of papers, comments, and documents traces the distant and recent history of the Ebonics debate in the USA. The book examines how, despite increa
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Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
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Why does human language vary from one person, or one group, to another? In what ways does it vary? How do linguists go about studying variation in, say, the sou
Beyond Ebonics
Language: en
Pages: 172
Authors: John Baugh
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-02-10 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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The media frenzy surrounding the 1996 resolution by the Oakland School Board brought public attention to the term "Ebonics", however the idea remains a mystery
Young, Gifted, and Black
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