| Description |
177 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
African American life
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African American life.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-174) and index. |
| Contents |
First lessons -- Rapping, reading, and role-playing. Early language ; Reading acquisition ; Impression management -- Semivoices -- Getting over the hump. The hump ; Gittin ovuh, getting over ; A transactional view ; Eradicationism, pluralism, and bidialectalism -- Big fame and other games -- The self, advancing literacy, and sidewalk university. An advanced literacy set ; The bent-but-not-broken home ; Sidewalk u ; Marva's way ; Thirty-seven learners ; Reconsidering labov's lames -- Valedictory -- Appendix : Records. |
| Subject |
Sociolinguistics -- United States.
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Sociolinguistics. |
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United States. |
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Gilyard, Keith, 1952- -- Childhood and youth.
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Gilyard, Keith, 1952- |
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African Americans -- Languages.
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African Americans -- Languages. |
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African Americans -- Education.
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African Americans -- Education. |
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English language -- Social aspects -- United States.
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English language -- Social aspects. |
| ISBN |
0814322247 alkaline paper $34.95 |
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0814322255 paperback alkaline paper $17.95 |
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