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One #$@% Good Read Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/american-speech/article-pdf/97/2/224/1621531/0970224.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 12 August 2022 224 americ an speech 97.2 (2022) others interpret the world around them but also to consider how their own planets of belief are constructed. Finally, and most significantly, the text creates a space for people to examine their own belief systems and the belief systems of people around them. After reading this book, specialists and nonspecialists will be able to identify their own beliefs and move to a clearer understanding of how those planets of belief were created and are perpetuated. Simultaneously, they will be able to question their belief systems and slowly change them. The information presented in Linguistic Planets of Belief makes it suitable not only as an academic text for use in a linguistics course but also as a text for a general audience interested in how language works, moving readers to a more reflective and hopefully transformative view of language and speakers. becky childs is professor and academic unit head of English at James Madi- son University. Her research on African American and Appalachian Englishes challenges assumptions and stereotypes surrounding these dialects and their speakers, while providing an intersectional lens for contextualizing the value http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American Speech Duke University Press

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American Speech , Volume 97 (2) – May 1, 2022

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Copyright 2022 by the American Dialect Society
ISSN
0003-1283
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1527-2133
DOI
10.1215/00031283-9940603
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Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/american-speech/article-pdf/97/2/224/1621531/0970224.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 12 August 2022 224 americ an speech 97.2 (2022) others interpret the world around them but also to consider how their own planets of belief are constructed. Finally, and most significantly, the text creates a space for people to examine their own belief systems and the belief systems of people around them. After reading this book, specialists and nonspecialists will be able to identify their own beliefs and move to a clearer understanding of how those planets of belief were created and are perpetuated. Simultaneously, they will be able to question their belief systems and slowly change them. The information presented in Linguistic Planets of Belief makes it suitable not only as an academic text for use in a linguistics course but also as a text for a general audience interested in how language works, moving readers to a more reflective and hopefully transformative view of language and speakers. becky childs is professor and academic unit head of English at James Madi- son University. Her research on African American and Appalachian Englishes challenges assumptions and stereotypes surrounding these dialects and their speakers, while providing an intersectional lens for contextualizing the value

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American SpeechDuke University Press

Published: May 1, 2022

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