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

Talking Back, Talking Black

Truths About America's Lingua Franca

2016

Ratings5

Average rating3.2

15

Lots of cool stuff in here about the linguistics of Black English. I don't know if the author really completed his goal though - I don't know that the people reading this book are the same people who want their minds changed about what Black English is. I think I would have liked it better if it stuck to the linguistics without the interjections about how other linguists have been talking about it wrong. But I just love the linguistics part of it so that's just me. It's a good book!

March 12, 2019