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Author : Lorenzo Dow Turner
Release : 1974
Genre : Black English
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Book Synopsis Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect by : Lorenzo Dow Turner
Download or read book Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect written by Lorenzo Dow Turner. This book was released on 1974. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lorenzo Dow Turner
Release : 1949
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Book Synopsis Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect, by Lorenzo Dow Turner by : Lorenzo Dow Turner
Download or read book Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect, by Lorenzo Dow Turner written by Lorenzo Dow Turner. This book was released on 1949. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Margaret Wade-Lewis
Release : 2007
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 286/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Lorenzo Dow Turner by : Margaret Wade-Lewis
Download or read book Lorenzo Dow Turner written by Margaret Wade-Lewis. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first book-length biography of the pioneering African American linguist and celebrated father of Gullah studies, Margaret Wade-Lewis examines the life of Lorenzo Dow Turner. A scholar whose work dramatically influenced the world of academia but whose personal story--until now--has remained an enigma, Turner (1890-1972) emerges from behind the shadow of his germinal 1949 study Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect as a man devoted to family, social responsibility, and intellectual contribution.
Author : Margaret Wade-Lewis
Release : 2022-05-11
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 379/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Lorenzo Dow Turner by : Margaret Wade-Lewis
Download or read book Lorenzo Dow Turner written by Margaret Wade-Lewis. This book was released on 2022-05-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first biography of the acclaimed African American linguist and author of Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect In this first book-length biography of the pioneering African American linguist and celebrated father of Gullah studies, Margaret Wade-Lewis examines the life of Lorenzo Dow Turner. A scholar whose work dramatically influenced the world of academia but whose personal story—until now—has remained an enigma, Turner (1890-1972) emerges from behind the shadow of his germinal 1949 study Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect as a man devoted to family, social responsibility, and intellectual contribution. Beginning with Turner's upbringing in North Carolina and Washington, D.C., Wade-Lewis describes the high expectations set by his family and his distinguished career as a professor of English, linguistics, and African studies. The story of Turner's studies in the Gullah islands, his research in Brazil, his fieldwork in Nigeria, and his teaching and research on Sierra Leone Krio for the Peace Corps add to his stature as a cultural pioneer and icon. Drawing on Turner's archived private and published papers and on extensive interviews with his widow and others, Wade-Lewis examines the scholar's struggle to secure funding for his research, his relations with Hans Kurath and the Linguistic Atlas Project, his capacity for establishing relationships with Gullah speakers, and his success in making Sea Island Creole a legitimate province of analysis. Here Wade-Lewis answers the question of how a soft-spoken professor could so profoundly influence the development of linguistics in the United States and the work of scholars—especially in Gullah and creole studies—who would follow him. Turner's widow, Lois Turner Williams, provides an introductory note and linguist Irma Aloyce Cunningham provides the foreword.
Author : William S. Pollitzer
Release : 2005-11-01
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis The Gullah People and Their African Heritage by : William S. Pollitzer
Download or read book The Gullah People and Their African Heritage written by William S. Pollitzer. This book was released on 2005-11-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gullah people are one of our most distinctive cultural groups. Isolated off the South Carolina-Georgia coast for nearly three centuries, the native black population of the Sea Islands has developed a vibrant way of life that remains, in many ways, as African as it is American. This landmark volume tells a multifaceted story of this venerable society, emphasizing its roots in Africa, its unique imprint on America, and current threats to its survival. With a keen sense of the limits to establishing origins and tracing adaptations, William S. Pollitzer discusses such aspects of Gullah history and culture as language, religion, family and social relationships, music, folklore, trades and skills, and arts and crafts. Readers will learn of the indigo- and rice-growing skills that slaves taught to their masters, the echoes of an African past that are woven into baskets and stitched into quilts, the forms and phrasings that identify Gullah speech, and much more. Pollitzer also presents a wealth of data on blood composition, bone structure, disease, and other biological factors. This research not only underscores ongoing health challenges to the Gullah people but also helps to highlight their complex ties to various African peoples. Drawing on fields from archaeology and anthropology to linguistics and medicine, The Gullah People and Their African Heritage celebrates a remarkable people and calls on us to help protect their irreplaceable culture.
