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John R. Rickford
John Russell Rickford
(born September 16, 1949 in
Georgetown
,
Guyana
) is a Guyanese
academic
and
author
. His book
Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English
, which he wrote together with his son,
Russell J. Rickford
, won the
American Book Award
in 2000. Rickford is the
J.E. Wallace Sterling
Professor of
Linguistics
and the Humanities at
Stanford University
's Department of Linguistics and the
Stanford Graduate School of Education
, where he has taught since 1980.
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