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LING 432-532 – Sociolinguistics – Spring 2011LING 432-532 – Sociolinguistics – Spring 2011Wardhaugh Ch 14Wardhaugh Ch 14
Read articles on African-American English and Chicano English at:
http://www.pbs.org/speak/seatosea/americanvarieties/AAVE/
http://www.pbs.org/speak/seatosea/americanvarieties/chicano/
Slide 2
LING 432-532 – Sociolinguistics – Spring 2011LING 432-532 – Sociolinguistics – Spring 2011Wardhaugh Ch 14Wardhaugh Ch 14
African American Vernacular English (AAVE) features
See website for examples:
http://www.eng.umu.se/city/therese/Linguistics/featuresintro.htm See this website for another list of features:
http://bryan.myweb.uga.edu/AAVE/features.html
Info from Wolfram & Schilling-Estes, 2006, American English, 2nd Ed.
Slide 3
LING 432-532 – Sociolinguistics – Spring 2011LING 432-532 – Sociolinguistics – Spring 2011Wardhaugh Ch 14Wardhaugh Ch 14
African American Vernacular English (AAVE) features (pp. 214-15)
Info from Wolfram & Schilling-Estes, 2006, American English, 2nd Ed.
Slide 4
LING 432-532 – Sociolinguistics – Spring 2011LING 432-532 – Sociolinguistics – Spring 2011Wardhaugh Ch 14Wardhaugh Ch 14
African American Vernacular English (AAVE) features (pp. 94-96)
Info from Wolfram, Walt. 2005. African American English. In Martin, J Ball, ed. Clinical Sociolinguistics. Malden/Oxford: Blackwell. 87-100.
Slide 5
LING 432-532 – Sociolinguistics – Spring 2011LING 432-532 – Sociolinguistics – Spring 2011Wardhaugh Ch 14Wardhaugh Ch 14
African American Vernacular English (AAVE) features (pp. 94-96)
Info from Wolfram, Walt. 2005. African American English. In Martin, J Ball, ed. Clinical Sociolinguistics. Malden/Oxford: Blackwell. 87-100.
Slide 6
LING 432-532 – Sociolinguistics – Spring 2011LING 432-532 – Sociolinguistics – Spring 2011Wardhaugh Ch 14Wardhaugh Ch 14
African American Vernacular English (AAVE) features (pp. 94-96)
Info from Wolfram, Walt. 2005. African American English. In Martin, J Ball, ed. Clinical Sociolinguistics. Malden/Oxford: Blackwell. 87-100.
Slide 7
LING 432-532 – Sociolinguistics – Spring 2011LING 432-532 – Sociolinguistics – Spring 2011Wardhaugh Ch 14Wardhaugh Ch 14
African American Vernacular English (AAVE) features (pp. 94-96)
Info from Wolfram, Walt. 2005. African American English. In Martin, J Ball, ed. Clinical Sociolinguistics. Malden/Oxford: Blackwell. 87-100.
Slide 8
LING 432-532 – Sociolinguistics – Spring 2011LING 432-532 – Sociolinguistics – Spring 2011Wardhaugh Ch 14Wardhaugh Ch 14
African American Vernacular English (AAVE) features (pp. 94-96)
Info from Wolfram, Walt. 2005. African American English. In Martin, J Ball, ed. Clinical Sociolinguistics. Malden/Oxford: Blackwell. 87-100.
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LING 432-532 – Sociolinguistics – Spring 2011LING 432-532 – Sociolinguistics – Spring 2011Wardhaugh Ch 14Wardhaugh Ch 14
From O'Grady, W., Archibald, J., Aronoff, M., Rees-Miller, J. (2009). Contemporary Linguistics: An Introduction (6th edition).
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LING 432-532 – Sociolinguistics – Spring 2011LING 432-532 – Sociolinguistics – Spring 2011Wardhaugh Ch 14Wardhaugh Ch 14
From O'Grady, W., Archibald, J., Aronoff, M., Rees-Miller, J. (2009). Contemporary Linguistics: An Introduction (6th edition).
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LING 432-532 – Sociolinguistics – Spring 2011LING 432-532 – Sociolinguistics – Spring 2011Wardhaugh Ch 14Wardhaugh Ch 14
AAVE - shares many features with Standard American English (SAE) and even more with White southern speechSometimes the differences are in frequency or environment - t/d deletion is not UNIQUE to AAVE, but where it applies is (delete even if next work begins with vowel)Not all AAVE speakers are African-American and not all African-Americans speak AAVE
Info from Wolfram & Schilling-Estes, 2006, American English, 2nd Ed.
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LING 432-532 – Sociolinguistics – Spring 2011LING 432-532 – Sociolinguistics – Spring 2011Wardhaugh Ch 14Wardhaugh Ch 14
Origins of AAVE debateAnglicist argument - says that AAVE is based on other dialects of English and has features found in all dialects of EnglishCreolist hypothesis - says that AAVE has as its origins a creole from the need to communicate among the slaves of diff lang background in the southern plantations - AAVE is decreolizing and becoming more like English as time goes on - many features of AAVE common to creoles
Very heated debate - slave narratives we saw on Do You Speak American indicate that AAVE of older speakers is closer to standard English, suggesting that AAVE is becoming LESS like English today (diverging) which doesn’t work well with decreolization hypothesis
Watch clips from Wolfram’s DVD about North Carolina
Info from Wolfram & Schilling-Estes, 2006, American English, 2nd Ed.
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LING 432-532 – Sociolinguistics – Spring 2011LING 432-532 – Sociolinguistics – Spring 2011Wardhaugh Ch 14Wardhaugh Ch 14
Origins of AAVE debateDivergence - differences in AAVE due to divergence from Standard EnglishConvergence - AAVE once a creole is converging and becoming more like Standard English so that it now looks like a variety of English rather than a creole
Info from Wolfram & Schilling-Estes, 2006, American English, 2nd Ed.
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LING 432-532 – Sociolinguistics – Spring 2011LING 432-532 – Sociolinguistics – Spring 2011Wardhaugh Ch 14Wardhaugh Ch 14
Bernstein - restricted code versus elaborated code - tried to explain why lower working class students did so poorly in school (no access at home to elaborated code which is code of education)Problems: makes the restricted code deficient (deficit model)
Ch 14 - Disadvantage
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LING 432-532 – Sociolinguistics – Spring 2011LING 432-532 – Sociolinguistics – Spring 2011Wardhaugh Ch 14Wardhaugh Ch 14
Ebonics - Oakland school board decision - basically, tried to call AAVE a different language to access ESL funds for AA students.
See Ling Society of America resolutionhttp://linguistlist.org/topics/ebonics/lsa-ebonics.html
John Rickford’s opinion: http://www.stanford.edu/~rickford/papers/EbonicsInMyBackyard.html
Many have tried (including Labov) to use linguistic knowledge of AAVE to help bridge the student gap to standard English but haven’t been successful - talk about Do You Speak American jeopardy game
Ch 14 - Disadvantage
