Talking Back, Talking Black: Truths About America's Lingua Franca by John McWhorter

Talking Back, Talking Black: Truths About America's Lingua Franca

John McWhorter

230 pages digital 2016

5 editions

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It has now been almost fifty years since linguistic experts began studying Black English as a legitimate speech variety, arguing to the public that it is different from Standard English, not a degradation of it. Yet false assumptions and controver...

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