Sandra Bland: Talking While Black

Language Log 2015-08-18

Summary:

Below is a guest post by Nicole Holliday, Rachel Burdin, and Joseph Tyler: Sandra Bland’s traffic stop and the tragic series of events that occurred afterwards have been the subject of many recent think pieces, but few authors have examined why the initial traffic stop went wrong in the first place. The most obvious explanation […]

Link:

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=20746

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Tags:

language and politics

Authors:

Mark Liberman

Date tagged:

08/18/2015, 14:54

Date published:

08/15/2015, 18:41