Ebonics: The True Language of Black Folks explained

Ebonics: The True Language of Black Folks is a 1975 book written by the American psychologist Robert Williams. Williams coined the term Ebonics two years earlier at a conference he organized on the topic of the "cognitive and language development of the African American child".[1] This book defines the term (which Williams translated as "black sounds"[2]) as the "linguistic and para-linguistic features which on a concentric continuum represent the communicative competence of the West African, Caribbean, and United States slave descendants of African origin".[3]

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Notes and References

  1. Yancy . George . 2011 . 'The Scholar Who Coined the Term Ebonics: A Conversation with Dr. Robert L. Williams . . 10 . 1 . 41–51 . 10.1080/15348458.2011.539967 . 142788341 .
  2. Editor's Note: The Evolution of Ebonics . Sylvia T. . Johnson . . 67 . 1 . 1998 . 1 . 2668233 . 10.2307/2668233 .
  3. What We Talk About When We Talk About Ebonics: Why Definitions Matter . Rosina . Lippi-Green . . 27 . 2 . 1997 . 7–11 . 41068724 . 10.1080/00064246.1997.11430852 .