V 4 N 1
Fall 1996

Special Issue:
African American Vernacular English

Guest Editor:
Mary Brown Zeigler

Articles
Title	Author	Page
Introductory Essay: Postcolonial Contexts of African American Vernacular English	Mary Brown Zeigler	1
African American Vernacular English in Colonial and Postcolonial Perspectives: The Linguistic Paradox	Abíódún Goké-Paríolá	14
Our Language, Our Selves	Sonja L. Laneheart	24
Barbados Creole English: Insights into Linguistic and Social Identity	Renee Blake	37
Culturally Toned Diminutives Within the Speech Community of African Americans	Denise Troutman	55
African American Writers and the Use of Dialect in Literature: The Foregrounding of Ethnicity	Viktor Osinubi	65
African American Discourse: Clarifying the Conflict	Mildred M. Pate	78
"Do You Know What I Mean?": The Struggle Continues . . .	Elaine Richardson	89
"Race," "Science," and the Rhetoric of Cognition	Jocelyn Adkins Irby	102
Coda: The Invisible Language: African American English in Language Arts and Composition	Mary Brown Zeigler	112

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