|
Canada-AB-DAYSLAND Azienda Directories
|
Azienda News:
- AAVE: African American Vernacular English
This term serves to place AAVE in the context of the many regional, national, and sociocultural forms of English such as Southern English, British English, Cajun English, and so forth; it also avoids the strong emotions and misunderstandings sometimes associated with the term Ebonics AAVE has been an important topic of discussion among
- LINGUIST List 7. 1048: aks and akst in AAVE
Specialists in AAVE agree that current African Americans who use aks have inherited this as the base form of the verb Some further comments came from Raj Mesthrie at the University of Cape Town: Aks is I believe alive and well in parts of Britain and elsewhere in the world (e g my native dialect of South African Indian English, where it co
- LINGUIST List 13. 821: Socioling, Walt Wolfram Erik R. Thomas
Most prominent among these is the development of African American English during the antebellum period and the trajectory of change in twentieth-century AAVE This book addresses both of these issues by examining an unparalleled sociolinguistic situation involving a long-standing, isolated, biracial community situated in a distinctive dialect
- LINGUIST List 25. 2362: Review: Sociolinguistics: Du Bois Baumgarten . . .
A Lane Igoudin’s short chapter, ‘Asian American girls who speak African American English: A subcultural language identity’, investigates language use and attitudes among three first-generation Asian-American teenage girls (two Filipino-American and one Cambodian-American) who use African American Vernacular English (AAVE) in their
- LINGUIST List 23. 3439: Review: Sociolinguistics: Lippi-Green (2011)
Here,Lippi-Green argues that assimilation via accent reduction is commonly perceivedto be the price of success in America (see also Chapters 9 and 12 for example) Similarly, Chapter 10's focus on AAVE (African American Vernacular English), or"Black language" (p 182) argues that the issues surrounding this variety of USEnglish are historically
- LINGUIST List 11. 1741: Code-switching in Movies
LINGUIST List 11 1741 Mon Aug 14 2000 Sum: Code-switching in Movies Editor for this issue: Lydia Grebenyova <lydialinguistlist org>
- LINGUIST List 14. 2846: Sociolinguistics: Trudgill (2003)
The listing for 'African American Vernacular English (AAVE)' (5), though only a paragraph long, efficiently introduces this term, as well as addressing the controversy surrounding its origins Cross-references for this entry include: 'copula deletion', 'variety', 'dialect', 'Gullah', 'creole', 'decreolisation', 'divergence controversy' and
- LINGUIST List 12. 174: Andrews, Linguistics for L2 Teachers
The chapter further discusses properties Standard American English (SAE) and African American Vernacular English (AAVE) The author subscribes to the view that AAVE is not a dialect of SAE and that it rather developed from West African languages The chapter outlines some features of AAVE that link it to West African languages
- LINGUIST List 13. 357: Wardhaugh, Introduction to Sociolinguistics
In the final section of this chapter Wardhaugh discusses the implications and consequences for education in view of the social disadvantage connected with the restricted code and AAVE In Chapter 15, Planning, the author first discusses a number of issues related to language planning, which is subcategorized into status planning and corpus
- LINGUIST List 9. 1085: Wolfram and Schilling-Estes: American English
It is interesting to note in this example that even though at least eight distinctive grammatical features distinguish AAVE from the Anglo American dialect, there is variation within each group sufficient to make comparisons difficult for linguists
|
|