摘要：In Shoptalk: Lessons in Teaching from an African American Hair Salon, Yolanda J. Majorssynthesizes research, teaching, a lot of hard thinking, and reflection following six years of research she conducted in four hair salons in the Midwestern and the Southern U.S. Based on what she learned about how argumentative discourse is constructed during informal conversations among African American women as they gathered in the social setting of the salon, she developed a shoptalk pedagogy for teaching literary analysis and argumentation in the Chicago neighborhood in which she had grown up, the West side area known as North Lawndale. This book thus both seeks to document the discourse practices found in a key site for gathering among African American women, and to apply that knowledge to instruction of urban African American students.
