{"publishers": ["Blackwell Publishers"], "number_of_pages": 399, "subtitle": "features, evolution, educational implications", "isbn_10": ["0631212450", "0631212442"], "subject_place": ["United States."], "covers": [1326978, 1326977], "lc_classifications": ["PE3102.N42 R53 1999", "PE3102.N42R53 1999"], "key": "/books/OL385153M", "authors": [{"key": "/authors/OL28452A"}], "publish_places": ["Malden, Mass"], "pagination": "xxviii, 399 p. :", "source_records": ["amazon:0631212442", "amazon:0631212450", "bwb:9780631212454", "marc:marc_loc_2016/BooksAll.2016.part27.utf8:38693286:1242", "ia:africanamericanv0000rick", "bwb:9780631212447", "promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2020-07-23", "marc:marc_nuls/NULS_PHC_180925.mrc:235202704:1480", "marc:marc_columbia/Columbia-extract-20221130-005.mrc:421811119:4116", "marc:harvard_bibliographic_metadata/20220215_032.bib.mrc:207717498:2579"], "title": "African American vernacular English", "dewey_decimal_class": ["427/.973/08996073"], "notes": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Includes bibliographical references (p. [348]-385) and index."}, "identifiers": {"librarything": ["4063209"], "goodreads": ["3094485", "1751698"]}, "languages": [{"key": "/languages/eng"}], "lccn": ["98047775"], "subjects": ["African Americans -- Languages.", "English language -- Social aspects -- United States.", "English language -- Spoken English -- United States.", "African Americans -- Education -- Language arts.", "Language and education -- United States.", "African American students -- Language.", "Black English."], "publish_date": "1999", "publish_country": "mau", "series": ["Language in society ;", "26", "Language in society (Oxford, England) ;", "26."], "by_statement": "John R. Rickford.", "works": [{"key": "/works/OL475126W"}], "type": {"key": "/type/edition"}, "ocaid": "africanamericanv0000rick", "local_id": ["urn:bwbsku:W3-AVN-645", "urn:nuls:31786101114806"], "oclc_numbers": ["98047775", "40150634"], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "\"In response to the flood of interest in African American Vernacular English (AAVE) following the recent controversy over \"Ebonics,\" this book brings together 16 essays on the subject by John Rickford, a leading expert in the field, who has been researching and writing on it for a quarter of a century.\"--BOOK JACKET.\n\n\"Rickford's essays cover the three central areas in which questions continue to come in from teachers, students, linguists, the news media, and interested members of the public: What are the features of AAVE/Ebonics and how is it used? What is its evolution and where is it headed? What are its educational and social implications?\"--BOOK JACKET."}, "latest_revision": 18, "revision": 18, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-02-20T00:49:15.971967"}}