Publications

Publication details [#12471]

Edwards, Viv. 1997. Patois and the Politics of Protest: Black English in British Classrooms. In Coupland, Nikolas and Adam Jaworski. Sociolinguistics: A Reader and Coursebook. (Modern Linguistics Series). MacMillan. pp. 408–415.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

black child | interactional sociolinguistics | interethnic communication | stereotype

Language as a subject

English, Afro-Carribean | Patois

Annotation

A report on the interactional contexts, usage consequences and speaker perceptions of Patois, as spoken by Afro-Carribean schoolchildren in Britain.