Monday, November 13, 2006

Linguistic variety

A useful summary/overview of linguists' responses to the Oakland proposal/ebonics, including McWhorter.

http://www.stanford.edu/~rickford/ebonics/LingAnthro1.html

1 comment:

susansinclair said...

There's good stuff on that on http://www.cal.org/, the Center for Applied Linguistics. (We spent a lot of time on this last year in sociolinguistics--a class populated primarily by multilingual preservice teachers from urban communities--wow, it was really really relevant!)