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International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) for English in the Continental U.S. |
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Introduction: My Subjectivities and Positionalities |
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Name a Thing a Thing: About Definitions and Naming |
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11 | (4) |
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Questions, Discussion, and Further Inquiry |
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2 A Seat at the Table: What Are You Bringing to the Table Before We Even Get Started? |
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18 | (23) |
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18 | (1) |
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Linguistic Shame and Denial |
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Linguistic Pride and Acceptance |
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25 | (1) |
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26 | (1) |
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What You're Not Going to Do: Definitions, Naming, and Pet Peeves |
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27 | (1) |
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To HEL---or HEC---and Back: The Messiness of Having the Army and the Navy |
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28 | (8) |
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Questions, Discussion, and Further Inquiry |
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39 | (1) |
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3 "Put Some Respeck on My Name!": Language and Uses of Identity in African American Communities |
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41 | (17) |
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Introduction: How We Gon Play This? |
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41 | (2) |
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Who Do People Say That I Am? |
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43 | (1) |
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44 | (2) |
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What Does It Feel Like to Be a Problem? |
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46 | (6) |
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52 | (2) |
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Questions, Discussion, and Further Inquiry |
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54 | (1) |
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54 | (3) |
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57 | (1) |
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4 "Where Your People From?': Problematizing Origins and Development |
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Introduction: Controversial History, Development, and Contested Origins |
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(Neo-)Anglicist and (Neo-)Creolist Origins Hypotheses |
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61 | (6) |
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Consensus Hypotheses: Substratist, Restructuralist, and Ecological |
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67 | (2) |
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The Divergence/Convergence Hypothesis |
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Questions, Discussion, and Further Inquiry |
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71 | (1) |
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71 | (3) |
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74 | (1) |
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5 What's Good?: A Concise Descriptivist Meta-Grammar of Language Use in African American Communities |
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Introduction: We Bout to Ride Up on This Elephant |
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75 | (3) |
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Why Y'all so Interested in Language Use in African American Communities? |
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Patterns, Systems, and Structure, Oh My! |
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Lexical Level: Word Classes and Word Formation |
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104 | (1) |
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Syntactic Level, Part 1 Verbal Markers |
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Syntactic Level, Part 2 From Multiple Negation to Patterns in Question Formation |
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Morphosyntactic Level: Inflections |
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111 | (1) |
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Speech Events, Discourse, Pragmatics, Nonverbal, and Paralinguistic Levels |
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113 | (2) |
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Where Does This Leave Us? |
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Questions, Discussion, and Further Inquiry |
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117 | (1) |
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117 | (4) |
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6 Where Your People At?: Regional and Geographic Variation |
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Introduction: A New Day Is Dawning |
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122 | (4) |
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126 | (1) |
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127 | (4) |
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From Regional to Social Variation |
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Questions, Discussion, and Further Inquiry |
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134 | (1) |
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134 | (4) |
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138 | (1) |
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7 Where My Shawtys At?: Social and Gendered Variation |
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Introduction: It's About to Be Lit Up in Here |
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139 | (1) |
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Black American Sign Language, or Black ASL |
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140 | (1) |
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Standards in Language Use in African American Communities |
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141 | (7) |
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Middle-Class Language Use in African American Communities |
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African American Women's Language, or AAWL |
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152 | (6) |
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Hip Hop Nation Language, or HHNL |
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158 | (6) |
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Sexuality and Gendered Identity in Language Use in African American Communities |
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Questions, Discussion, and Further Inquiry |
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8 This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Pop Culture, Social Media, and Digital Media |
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Introduction: Whatcha Know Good? |
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177 | (1) |
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178 | (3) |
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Ya Man, Steve Harvey: Blacktainment Extraordinaire |
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181 | (3) |
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The Queen of Soul to Spoken Soul |
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184 | (2) |
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Black Twitter and Language Use in African American Communities |
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186 | (1) |
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Digital Media and the Performance of Language Use in African American Communities |
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187 | (2) |
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189 | (1) |
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Questions, Discussion, and Further Inquiry |
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189 | (1) |
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191 | (1) |
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9 It's Not the Shoes, Bruh! You Black!: African American Language Use in AmeriKKKa's Educational Apparat U.S. |
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Introduction: That's the Way of the World |
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How and When We Enter White Educational Spaces ... and Some Definitions |
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196 | (5) |
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We Ain't Havin It!: Let's Get on the Good Foot |
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We Come From a Remarkable People |
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204 | (3) |
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The Research: Language and Linguistic Justice for Black Children |
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207 | (4) |
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Language of Black America on Trial: The Ann Arbor "Black English" Trial and the Oakland Ebonics Controversy |
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211 | (3) |
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As My Dad Would Say, "Stop Pussyfootin Roun the Issue:" Because Racism |
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214 | (2) |
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Questions, Discussion, and Further Inquiry |
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216 | (1) |
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217 | (4) |
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221 | (1) |
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10 "If You Don't Know Me by Now..." |
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223 | (10) |
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Introduction: "You Cain't Do Wrong and Get By" |
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223 | (2) |
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Things I Didn't Discuss That You Might Consider |
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225 | (2) |
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"Whatcha Know Good?": What I Hope You Did, Learned, and Hope to Do |
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227 | (1) |
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Questions, Discussion, and Further Inquiry |
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227 | (1) |
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228 | (1) |
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AAL and Black culture words and phrases |
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Index |
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