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That mainstream English is essential to our self-preservation is indisputable... but it is not necessary to abandon Spoken Soul to master Standard English, any more than it is necessary to abandon English to learn French or to deprecate jazz to appreciate classical music.

John R. Rickford

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John R. Rickford

John R. Rickford

Born: September 16, 1949 (age 75)
Bio: John Russell Rickford is a Guyanese academic and author. His book Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English, which he wrote together with his son, Russell J. Rickford, won the American Book Award in 2000. Rickford is the J.E.
Known for:
  1. Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English (2000)
  2. Variation in a Creole continuum (1987)

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