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3 unusual facts about Voices of the Self: A Study of Language Competence


Keith Gilyard

Also notable among Gilyard's professional accomplishments are his receipt of the American Book Award (1992) for his monograph Voices of the Self: A Study of Language Competence, his distinction as Distinguished Professor at Penn State (2005), the Penn State Class of 1933 Medal of Distinction in the humanities (2005), and an Arts nf Humanities Medal (2006).

Voices of the Self: A Study of Language Competence

Voices of the Self: A Study of Language Competence was written and published in 1991 by Raymond Keith Gilyard.

Standard English, a term that comes with a long history of debate, is generally understood by linguistic and literacy researchers as the language variety emphasized by the American public school system as the acceptable dialectical version of the English language.



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