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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi Barbara,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The only work I’m familiar with that might be relevant is by Betsy Rymes, from her book “Conversational Borderlands: Language and Identity in an Alternative Urban High School.” Some of the framing of how neighborhood names are utilized could be useful.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Take care,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Steve<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#4472C4'>Steven P. Black<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#A5A5A5'>Acting Director of Graduate Studies / Associate Professor / Department of Anthropology / Georgia State University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt'><a href="http://sites.gsu.edu/sblack/"><span style='color:#0563C1'>The Global Health Discourses Project</span></a><span style='color:#7F7F7F'> </span><span style='color:#A6A6A6'>/</span><span style='color:#7F7F7F'> </span><a href="https://anthropology.gsu.edu/"><span style='color:#0563C1'>GSU Anthropology</span></a> <span style='color:#A6A6A6'>/</span> <a href="https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/speech-and-song-at-the-margins-of-global-health/9780813597713"><span style='color:#0563C1'>Book: Speech and Song At the Margins of Global Health</span></a><span style='color:#A5A5A5'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#A5A5A5'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#A5A5A5'>P.O. Box 3998<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#A5A5A5'>Atlanta, GA 30302-3998<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#A5A5A5'>(404) 413-5168</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>From: </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Linganth <linganth-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org> on behalf of Barbara Johnstone <barbarajohnstone@gmail.com><br><b>Reply-To: </b><barbarajohnstone@gmail.com><br><b>Date: </b>Saturday, April 6, 2019 at 2:49 PM<br><b>To: </b><LINGANTH@listserv.linguistlist.org><br><b>Subject: </b>[Linganth] African American "neighborhood oaths"<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I received this message from a local high school student. Can anybody point me in the right direction? Thanks!<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>My name is Daevan Mangalmurti. I am a student at Obama Academy in East Liberty. During my time as a student there, I've come across several different words that are used in various mostly African-American communities to affirm loyalty to specific neighborhoods and which are taken as affirmative oaths in a sense similar to, "I swear on my mother's grave." Examples would be the use of "nephs" in parts of the Hill District and the use of "showtime" in Garfield. Would you happen to be familiar with this phenomenon, or know of any research that looks into it?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br>-- <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Barbara Johnstone<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:bj4@andrew.cmu.edu">bj4@andrew.cmu.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________ Linganth mailing list Linganth@listserv.linguistlist.org http://listserv.linguistlist.org/mailman/listinfo/linganth <o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>