Title
People say I speak proper, but girl, I’m ghetto! Regional Dialect Use and Adaptation by African American Women in Pennsylvania’s Lower Susquehanna Valley
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2009
Department 1
Africana Studies
Abstract
African American Women’s Language: Discourse, Education, and Identity is a groundbreaking collection of research on African American Women’s Language that is long overdue. It brings together a range of research including variationist, autoethnography, phenomenological, ethnographic, and critical. The authors come from a variety of disciplines (e.g., Sociology, African American Studies, Africana Studies, Linguistics, Sociophonetics, Sociolinguistics, Anthropology, Literacy, Education, English, Ecological Literature, Film, Hip Hop, Language Variation), scientific paradigms (e.g., critical race theory, narrative, interaction, discursive, variationist, post-structural, and post-positive perspectives), and inquiry methods (e.g., quantitative, qualitative, ethnographic, and multimethod) while addressing a variety of African American female populations (e.g., elementary school, middle school, adults) and activity settings (e.g., classrooms, family, community, church, film). Readers will get a good sense of the language, discourse, identity, community, and grammar of African American women. The essays provide the most current research on African American Women’s Language and expand a literature that has too often only focused on male populations at the expense of letting the sistas speak.
Recommended Citation
Bloomquist, Jennifer. "People say I speak proper, but girl, I’m ghetto! Regional dialect use and adaptation by African American women in Pennsylvania’s Lower Susquehanna Valley," African American Women’s Language: Discourse, Education, and Identity ed. Sonja L. Lanehart (Cambridge Scholars, 2009), 165-182.
Comments
Original version is available from the publisher at: http://www.cambridgescholars.com/african-american-womens-language-16