WELCOME TO MOI UNIVERSITY LIBRARY SERVICES


Please, type in the keywords, the title, subject, or author name below for your search. For detailed manual see this manual
Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

Black linguistics : language, society, and politics in Africa and the Americas / edited by Sinfree Makoni ... [et al.] ; foreword by Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.Description: xii, 228 pages. : illustrationsISBN:
  • 0415261376
  • 0415261384 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.44/089/96 22
LOC classification:
  • P 40.5 .B42B53 2003
Online resources:
Contents:
Ideologies of language and socially realistic linguistics / Donald Winford -- "We are the streets" : African American language and the strategic construction of a street conscious identity / H. Samy Alim -- Sound and power : the language of the Rastafari / Velma Pollard -- Promoting African languages as conveyors of knowledge in educational institutions / Zaline M. Roy-Campbell -- Language policies and language education in francophone Africa : a critique and a call to action / Hassana Alidou -- Contradiction or affirmation? The South African language policy and the South African national government / Nkhelebeni Phaswana -- From misinvention to disinvention of language : multilingualism and the South African constitution / Sinfree Makoni -- Linguistic profiling / John Baugh -- "Whassup, homeboy?" Joining the African Diaspora : black English as a symbolic site of identification and language learning / Awad el Karim M. Ibrahim -- US and South African teachers' developing perspectives on language and literacy : changing domestic and international roles of linguistic gate-keepers / Arnetha F. Ball.
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Barcode
Loan Margaret Thatcher Library First Floor P 40.5 | .B42B53 2003 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 23025428

Errata sheet laid in.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ideologies of language and socially realistic linguistics / Donald Winford -- "We are the streets" : African American language and the strategic construction of a street conscious identity / H. Samy Alim -- Sound and power : the language of the Rastafari / Velma Pollard -- Promoting African languages as conveyors of knowledge in educational institutions / Zaline M. Roy-Campbell -- Language policies and language education in francophone Africa : a critique and a call to action / Hassana Alidou -- Contradiction or affirmation? The South African language policy and the South African national government / Nkhelebeni Phaswana -- From misinvention to disinvention of language : multilingualism and the South African constitution / Sinfree Makoni -- Linguistic profiling / John Baugh -- "Whassup, homeboy?" Joining the African Diaspora : black English as a symbolic site of identification and language learning / Awad el Karim M. Ibrahim -- US and South African teachers' developing perspectives on language and literacy : changing domestic and international roles of linguistic gate-keepers / Arnetha F. Ball.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.

Copyright @ The Margaret Thatcher Library August 2023
T