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The Uniqueness of African American Vernacular English
Author: Lea Lorena Jerns
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Published: 2014-06-13
Total Pages: 20
ISBN-13: 3656670749
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, Humboldt-University of Berlin, language: English, abstract: "The language, only the language...it is the thing that black people love so much – the saying of words, holding them on the tongue, experimenting with them, playing with them. It’s a love, a passion. Its function is like a preacher’s: to make you stand up out of your seat, make you lose yourself and ear yourself. The worst of all possible things that could happen is to lose that language. There are certain things I cannot say with-out recourse to my language." With these words Toni Morrison, an American professor and novelist, probably expressed exactly what many African American people felt and still feel. In her statement she refers to the so-called “African American Vernacular English”, abbreviated AAVE, which is “a variant of English spoken mostly by black people in the United States.” (Jokinen 2008: 1) It is also known as “African American English”, “Black English Vernacular”, “Black Vernacular Eng-lish”, “Black Vernacular”, “Black English” or “Ebonics”. It is important to point out that not all African Americans inevitably speak this ethnolect and that there are also people with a non-African American background who nonetheless may speak it. (cf. Patrick 2007: 1) Fur-thermore, it is hard to define who actually speaks AAVE as some speakers may only use some features, e.g. vocabulary or grammatical aspects, of this variant. (cf. Jokinen 2008: 1) AAVE is a variant of English that you can see and hear every day – it is present in the Internet and in many songs and that makes it so interesting to find out more about it and to get a better understanding of AAVE. In this paper, I will focus on different aspects. I will start dealing with the question “Where does AAVE come from?” under point two and will continue with a brief overview of some basic grammatical features of AAVE in point three. Under point four, I will present and discuss a concrete example of a text, in which AAVE plays an important role, namely in the short story The Gilded Six-Bits of Zora Neale Hurston, written in 1933. Afterwards, under point five, I am going to talk about AAVE in Rap and HipHop songs as there can be found a considerable number of this kind of music all around the world and, under point 6, I will deal with the controversial question whether AAVE should be taught in schools or not. Finally, in the conclusion of my paper, I would like to let the uniqueness of AAVE and the importance of recognizing...
African American Vernacular English
Author: John Russell Rickford
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 1999-07-16
Total Pages: 399
ISBN-13: 9780631212447
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In response to the flood of interest in African American Vernacular English (AAVE) following the recent controversy over "Ebonics," this book brings together sixteen essays on the subject by a leading expert in the field, one who has been researching and writing on it for a quarter of a century.
African American Slang
Author: Maciej Widawski
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-03-05
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 1107074177
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A pioneering exploration of form, meaning, theme and function in African American slang, illustrated with thousands of contextual examples.
Lexicon of Black English
Author: Joey Lee Dillard
Publisher: Burns & Oates
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Of the thousands of books and articles on the Black American English vernacular published in the last decade, almost all have failed to examine closely the vocabulary of Black English. This book corrects that failing by going beyond popular treatments that overemphasize the language of the drug trade and of prostitution - language, J.L. Dillard convincingly demonstrates, which is only incidentally "Black." Since there is no full-scale dictionary of Black English available, the present "lexicon" will be an indispensable work for Blacks seeking to understand their own historic past, and for all those who have been fascinated by the forcefulness and richness of this language"--From Amazon.com.
African American Language
Author: Mary Kohn
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-12-03
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 1108876749
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From birth to early adulthood, all aspects of a child's life undergo enormous development and change, and language is no exception. This book documents the results of a pioneering longitudinal linguistic survey, which followed a cohort of sixty-seven African American children over the first twenty years of life, to examine language development through childhood. It offers the first opportunity to hear what it sounds like to grow up linguistically for a cohort of African American speakers, and provides fascinating insights into key linguistics issues, such as how physical growth influences pronunciation, how social factors influence language change, and the extent to which individuals modify their language use over time. By providing a lens into some of the most foundational questions about coming of age in African American Language, this study has implications for a wide range of disciplines, from speech pathology and education, to research on language acquisition and sociolinguistics.
African American Vernacular English
Author: Desirée Kuthe
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Published: 2007-11
Total Pages: 28
ISBN-13: 3638845109
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Essay from the year 2007 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,0, University of Córdoba (Spain: Universidad de Córdoba), course: Sociolinguistics, 8 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: African American Vernacular English or AAVE, which is also variously labelled 'African American English', 'Black English', 'Black Vernacular English' or 'Ebonics', is the non-standard variety of English spoken by many African Americans, at least to some extent and in some contexts. The now very popular term Ebonics is a portmanteau of the words 'ebony' and 'phonics', created in 1973 by a group of black scholars, who disliked the term 'Nonstandard Negro English', which was in use at that time. The circumstances of the creation of the term, (which has gained considerable popularity during a huge debate in 1996, which will be discussed later), already highlights one of the main features associated with AAVE: the controversies which centre upon it, "even" - according to McCrum et al. - "within the Black community. For some, it is an authentic means of self-expression for Black English speakers throughout America and the world. For others, who prefer the norms of Standard English, Black English represents the disadvantaged past, an obstacle to advancement, something better unlearned, denied or forgotten." The first thorough sociolinguistic study of AAVE was carried out by William Labov in 1968. It was funded by the US Office of Education, which was interested in "the relation between social dialects and the teaching of English." The problems many Black American children had to acquire thorough reading skills was, in fact, what first brought attention to AAVE. Still scholars can't seem to agree on what exactly AAVE is and where it comes from. Scholars on one end of the scale of opinions hold it to be very different from Standard English, even a distinct language, those on the other end claim it to be a mere product of regional a
Black Talk
Author: Geneva Smitherman
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Fully revised and updated -- the ultimate guide to black talk from all segments of the African American community.Do you want to be down with the latest hype terms from the Hip Hop world? Black Talk is the perfect source. "Even if you think you're hip, you'd better look up kitchen, got her nose open, jump salty, and hundreds of other sayings, former or current, that testify to the linguistic originality of Black speakers," said Frederic G. Cassidy, chief editor of the Dictionary of American Regional English. This new edition of Black Talk includes more than 300 new words and phrases and, now more than ever, reflects the ever-changing meanings and uses of this vital and rich part of our language. In a style that is always informative and always entertaining, Geneva Smitherman takes this dictionary far beyond a list of words. Black Talk is a cultural map that charts word meanings along the highways and byways of African American life.
African American Vernacular English
Author: Inga Walte
Publisher: Grin Publishing
Published: 2007-09
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 9783638747370
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2,0, University of Hannover, 7 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: English is the most spoken language in the world. Wherever you go, you can express yourself via English. But English is not the same anyplace you go. British English and American English, for instance, differ a lot. Not only by means of pronunciation, but also concerning vocabulary, grammar etc. Moreover, the language within each country differs and there exist many dialects. One may say that African American Vernacular English (AAVE) is a dialect; others may say it is a separate language system. In this paper I will try to show how AAVE works, who speaks it and how it differs from Standard English. My focus lies on AAVE spoken in the United States. "Significant research on black English in the United states is almost entirely a product of the 1960s" (Dillard1972: 6) and thus not that old. Nevertheless there exist different opinions concerning as well? Its the origin and the status it has. So, in this essay I am going to deal with Black American English and its specific features and differences to Standard English. Standard means here the achieved official recognition of a language. The standard is spoken by the majority of speakers in the US. The analysis includes an introduction to the grammar of AAVE and its specific vocabulary. At the beginning a short survey will be given on who actually speaks AAVE. At the end of the paper, I will give some examples how AAVE actually works and is used by blacks. Tense, mood, and aspect cannot always be strictly separated, and thus the explanations and examples of each category are sort of melted together. Moreover, I will talk about the question whether AAVE should be looked at as if being a self-governed language system or a dialect of Standard English spoken in the United States.
African American Vernacular English
Author: Ismail Durgut
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Published: 2009-03-17
Total Pages: 18
ISBN-13: 3640290976
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject American Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1.0, University of Duisburg-Essen, course: Language and Interaction, language: English, abstract: The majority of the US-citizens of African ancestry speak a characteristic variety of English that has been referred to by several names. It has variously been called Non-Standard Negro English, Negro Dialect , Black English Vernacular, Black English, African American English, African American Vernacular English, Ebonics, etc. In this paper, I will use the term African American Vernacular English, abbreviated AAVE, because it is the term most current among linguists today. The term “vernacular” refers to the everyday language spoken by a speech community, often a non-standard variety. No other variety inside the United States has been studied as much as AAVE. During the last fourty years, many works have been released concerning this topic. This paper is an overview of AAVE. It starts with the historical backgrounds of the variety by discussing the major theories concerning its origin. The main part of this paper deals with AAVE’s linguistic features in comparison to Standard American English. The features are subdivided into the sub-chapters phonology, grammar and vocabulary. A summary forms the final chapter of this paper.
