Other People’s English: Code-Meshing, Code-Switching, and African American Literacy deals heavily with code-meshing, code-switching, and the role these concepts play in African American literacy. The book builds off the work of scholars such as John Rickford, Geneva Smitherman, Suresh Canagarajah, Lisa Delpit, and Keith Gilyard in their research on African-American English (AAE). Young, Barrett, Young-Rivera, and Lovejoy each implement their own perspectives on codeswitching—the act of switching multiple languages to use them separately—and code-meshing— the blending of multiple languages together.
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