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| Author | Robert L. Williams |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher | Institute of Black Studies |
Publication date | 1975 |
Ebonics: The True Language of Black Folks is a 1975 book written by the American psychologist Robert Williams. Williams coined the term Ebonics two years earlier at a conference he organized on the topic of the "cognitive and language development of the African American child". [1] This book defines the term (which Williams translated as "black sounds" [2] ) as the "linguistic and para-linguistic features which on a concentric continuum represent the communicative competence of the West African, Caribbean, and United States slave descendants of African origin". [3]
