Books in the Routledge Linguistics Classics series

Originally published: London: Routledge, 1998.

Revised edition of the author's Power and politeness in the workplace: a sociolinguistic analysis of talk at work, published in 2003.

"This edition reissued in Routledge Translation Classics series 2017."

Presenting an overview of past debates on the speech of the African Americans, this study explores the relationship between language and race, as well as common perceptions of African American Language (AAL). It is for students of African American English, language, culture and sociolinguistics, as well as the general reader.