Urban Speech Communities
* Identity
* Migration
* Interaction
* Language use
* Discourse styles
* Urban youth language
* Verbal performance
* Hiphop culture
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The African Diaspora
Continuity and innovation in language and communication styles of peoples of African descent residing in the Americas and throughout the African Diaspora
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Language, culture and identity
How language both constitutes and works in the construction of gender, national and other group identities, especially in urban areas
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Discourse strategies
* Intentionality and responsibility in discourse
* Construction of gender in discourse and narrative style
* Language socialization
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Verbal performance
In urban African Diaspora speech communities with special emphasis on African American toasts, signifying and hiphop
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Hiphop language and culture
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Language and education
Language policy and planning regarding social class varieties and African American English in the US, literacy instruction, language education policy and programs for bilingual creole language speakers