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Beyond Ebonics: Linguistic Pride and Racial Prejudice
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Beyond Ebonics: Linguistic Pride and Racial PrejudiceBeyond Ebonics: Linguistic Pride and Racial Prejudice

Baugh debunks many commonly-held notions about the way African-Americans speak English, and the result is a nuanced and balanced portrait of a fraught subject. This volume should appeal to students and scholars in anthropology, linguistics, education, urban studies, and African-American studies.
 
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Language in the Inner City: Studies in the Black English Vernacular
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Language in the Inner City: Studies in the Black English VernacularLanguage in the Inner City: Studies in the Black English Vernacular

Language in the Inner City firmly establishes African American Vernacular English not simply as slang but as a well-formed set of rules of pronunciation and grammar capable of conveying complex logic and reasoning...
 
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Black English and the Mass Media
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Black English and the Mass MediaBlack English and the Mass Media

From analysis of the mass media, Dr. Brasch develops a major new theory to explain the historical development of Black English, and to present a hypothesis that may explain historical development of genre...
 
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The Edge of Meaning
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The Edge of MeaningThe Edge of Meaning

Certain questions are basic to the human condition: how we imagine the world, and ourselves and others within it; how we confront the constraints of language and the limits of our own minds; and how we use imagination to give meaning to past experiences and to shape future ones. These are the questions James Boyd White addresses in The Edge of Meaning, exploring each through its application to great works of Western culture—Huckleberry Finn, the Odyssey, and the paintings of Vermeer among them.

 
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Contexts of Metaphor
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Contexts of Metaphor

This study presents an approach to metaphor that systematically takes contextual factors into account. It analyses how metaphors both depend on, and change, the context in which they are uttered, and specifically, how metaphorical interpretation involves the articulation of asserted, implied and presupposed material. It supplements this semantic analysis with a practice-based account of metaphor at the conceptual level, which stresses the role of sociocultural factors in concept formation.
 
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