Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Beginnings: shouts of affirmation from South Vista
- 2 ‘Spanish is becoming famous’: youth perspectives on Spanish in a changing youth community
- 3 ‘True Samoan’: ethnic solidarity and linguistic reality
- 4 ‘They’re in my culture, they speak the same way’: sharing African American Language at South Vista
- Interlude : on oral language use, research, and teaching in multiethnic schools
- 5 ‘You rep what you’re from’: texting identities in multiethnic youth space
- 6 Making school go: re-visioning school for pluralism
- Appendix: Notes on methodology in cultural studies of language across difference
- Notes
- References
- Index
4 - ‘They’re in my culture, they speak the same way’: sharing African American Language at South Vista
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Beginnings: shouts of affirmation from South Vista
- 2 ‘Spanish is becoming famous’: youth perspectives on Spanish in a changing youth community
- 3 ‘True Samoan’: ethnic solidarity and linguistic reality
- 4 ‘They’re in my culture, they speak the same way’: sharing African American Language at South Vista
- Interlude : on oral language use, research, and teaching in multiethnic schools
- 5 ‘You rep what you’re from’: texting identities in multiethnic youth space
- 6 Making school go: re-visioning school for pluralism
- Appendix: Notes on methodology in cultural studies of language across difference
- Notes
- References
- Index
Summary
African American Language (AAL), like Spanish, was impossible to miss as I spent time inside and outside the classrooms of South Vista. AAL is probably the most studied variety of English in the world, with over forty years of sociolinguistic scholarship investigating when, how, where, with whom, and why AAL has been and continues to be spoken by many African Americans. These decades of scholarship have given us a rich understanding of the grammar, phonology, lexicon, systematicity, and rhetorical traditions of AAL.
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- Language across DifferenceEthnicity, Communication, and Youth Identities in Changing Urban Schools, pp. 81 - 118Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011