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Publication details [#32623]

Poplack, Shana and Sali A. Tagliamonte. 2001. African American English in the Diaspora. De Gruyter. xxi+293 pp.

Publication type

Book – monograph

Publication language

English

Keywords

colonialism | historical explanation | language change | language variety

Language as a subject

English, African American

Annotation

This book is particularly valuable for the extensive description of the settlement history in the 1820s and the ‘‘diminishing’’ Samana community in 1980/1982, and of the Nova Scotia ‘‘Loyalist’’ ex-slave settlements in North Preston and Guysborough.