The Oxford Dictionary of African American English in the making: panel discussion

Oxford Languages, a division of Oxford University Press and publisher of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), and Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African & African American Research have partnered for a three-year research project, whose aim is to compile the Oxford Dictionary of African American English (ODAAE).
The project is spearheaded by Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Editor-in-Chief), Director of the Center and Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard, and is funded in part by grants from the Mellon and Wagner Foundations (www.wfound.org).
In this talk, some of the project team members provided a quick overview of the project, followed by a panel discussion:
- Project overview and aims
- Where we are now
- Why we are compiling ODAAE
- The socio-linguistic importance of African American English
- Q&A time
Read more about the project: public.oed.com/blog/pr-odaae/