Language and Linguistics in the News
- Sign Language and Deafness
- Ebonics
- First Oakland School Board resolution, 12/18/96
- Revised Oakland School Board resolution, 1/15/97
- John R. Rickford, Stanford University
- William
Labov, University of Pennsylvania
(See this site for William
Labov's testimony on Ebonics given January 23rd before the Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services and
Education of the Senate Appropriations Committee.)
- Centre
for Studies of Language in Education, archive of print resources on Ebonics debate
- Creolist
archives: English
- "Double Standards," Geoff Nunberg
- "A different approach to teaching language," Atlanta Constitution - 1/9/97
- "The
Ebonics Debate," L. Rush from Psych Discourse, 28(2&3), 6
-
Linguistic Society of America resolution, also has additional links and
references
- A letter from some linguists
- Endangered Languages
- "Workings of Split Brain Challenge
Notions of How Language Evolved," SANDRA BLAKESLEE
- "Phillyspeak," Jim Quinn