African American Vernacular English

Features, Evolution, Educational Implications

Rickford, John Russell

Language in Society

1. Edition May 1999
428 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd

ISBN: 978-0-631-21245-4

John Wiley & Sons

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In response to the flood of interest in African American Vernacular English (AAVE) following the recent controversy over "Ebonics," this book brings together sixteen essays on the subject by a leading expert in the field, one who has been researching and writing on it for a quarter of a century.

Part I: Features and Use.

Part II: Evolution.

Part III: Educational Implications.

Index.

"John Rickford has been studying AAVE for nearly 30 years and is recognized as one of the experts leading the discussion about AAVE and implementing solutions to a number of associated problems."
--James H. Yang, Language in Society

John R. Rickford is the Martin Luther King Centennial Professor of Linguistics and African and Afro-American Studies at Stanford University. He is also the Director of the thirty-year-old degree-granting Program in African and Afro-American Studies, and President of the International Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles, and several books, including Dimensions of a Creole Continuum (1987), editor of A Festival of Guyanese Words (1978), Sociolinguistics and Pidgin-Creole Studies (1988), and co-editor of Analyzing Variation in Language (1987).

J. R. Rickford, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California