Table of Contents

• Foreword by William Labov
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Part 1. Orientation
  • 1. Some Common Misconceptions about African American Vernacular English
  • 2. Language and Race: Some Implications of Bias for Linguistic Science
• Part 2. The Relevance of African American Vernacular English to Education and Social Policies
  • 3. Why What Works Has Not Worked for Nontraditional Students
  • 4. Reading, Writing, and Rap: Lyric Shuffle and Other Motivational Strategies to Introduce and Reinforce Literacy
  • 5. Educational Malpractice and the Ebonics Controversy
  • 6. Linguistic Discrimination and American justice
• Part 3. Cross-cultural Communication in Social Context
  • 7. The Politics of Black Power Handshakes
  • 8. Changing Terms of Self-reference among American Slave Descendants
• Part 4. Linguistic Dimensions of African American Vernacular English
  • 9. Steady: Progressive Aspect in African American Vernacular English
  • 10. Come Again: Discourse Functions in African American Vernacular English
  • 11. Hypocorrection: Mistakes in the Production of African American Vernacular English as a Second Dialect
  • 12. Linguistic Perceptions in Black and White: Racial Identification Based on Speech
• Part 5. Conclusion
  • 13. Research Trends for African American Vernacular English: Anthropology, Education, and Linguistics
• Notes
• Glossary
• References
• Index

Promotional Information

"If this book is anywhere near as successful as Baugh's Black Street Speech (which is probably the most widely used text on African American Vernacular English), it will not only be a contribution to the field of sociolinguistics, but a popular success as well." -- Guy Bailey, coeditor of The Emergence of Black English: Text and Commentary

About the Author

John Baugh is Professor of Education and Linguistics at Stanford University.