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  • My Soul Look Back in Wonder
    Geneva Napoleon Smitherman
    This is the story of Dr. Geneva Smitherman, aka 'Dr. G,' the pioneering linguist often referred to as the 'Queen of Black Language.' As Dr. G enters her eighth decade, she seeks to share the meaning and purpose of a life of study and struggle and its significance for all those who seek racial and social justice today. ...
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    53,50 €

  • Word from the Mother
    Geneva Smitherman
    This classic text by Geneva Smitherman, pioneering scholar of Black Talk, is a definitive statement on African American Language (AAL). It is an essential read for students of African American speech, language, culture and sociolinguistics, as well as the general reader interested in the worldwide ’crossover’ of Black popular culture. ...
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    74,68 €

  • Articulate While Black
    Geneva Smitherman / H Samy Alim
    Barack Obama is widely considered one of the most powerful and charismatic speakers of our age. Without missing a beat, he often moves between Washington insider talk and culturally Black ways of speaking--as shown in a famous YouTube clip, where Obama declined the change offered to him by a Black cashier in a Washington, D.C. restaurant with the phrase, 'Nah, we straight.' ...
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    60,52 €

  • Word from the Mother
    Geneva Smitherman
    Geneva Smitherman presents an overview of past debates on the speech of the African Americans. Enriched by her inimitable style, this evocative study explores the relationship between language and race, as well as common perceptions of African American Language (AAL). ...
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    77,60 €

  • Black Linguistics
    Arnetha Ball / Geneva Smitherman / Sinfree Makoni
    This groundbreaking collection re-orders the elitist and colonial elements of language studies by drawing together the multiple perspectives of Black language researchers. ...
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    77,33 €

  • Talkin that Talk
    Geneva Smitherman
    A highly readable collection of key articles and essays by a leading scholar on African American language and politics. Smitherman discusses the inter-relationship between African American language, culture and education. ...
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    97,87 €

  • Talkin and Testifyin
    Geneva Smitherman
    In her book, Geneva Smitherman makes a substantial contribution to an understanding of Black English by setting it in the larger context of Black culture and life style. In addition to defining Black English, by its distinctive structure and special lexicon, Smitherman argues that the Black dialect  is set apart from traditional English by a rhetorical style which reflects its ...
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    38,06 €