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To make up for what is, in retrospect, a lop-sided picture of AAVE, linguists have been looking more closely at the wider Africa ...

identifies a number of features which are new or intensifying in urban AAVE. Table 10.2 Some of the differences between urban an ...

terminology that alleges to have scientific validity cannot survive with multiple definitions. (Baugh 2000: 86) Anglo attitudes ...

In a parallel way, Anglos rarely hesitate when they are asked their opinions on AAVE. Without pause, individuals will tell you w ...

On the last day that I met with my adopt-a-class last year, I told the students that they will have to learn to read, write, do ...

presentation which he otherwise finds well done and convincing on the basis of a single sociolinguistic variant; Harper’s prints ...

The dilemma is that it doesn’t make much difference for the Black professional athletes, etc., who talk this way – they’re wealt ...

individuals, and further, that a good role model will not sound Black. For him, the two are mutually exclusive. His message is c ...

“You might be, but no sense talking like a dumb one if you ever want to get anywhere in this world ...” ... “I could turn you in ...

institutionalized subordination tactics. Such outpourings are useful, because they get right to the heart of the matter: I am si ...

definition of AAVE, but then falls back on more traditional views of the excluded and resentful outsider. This kind of reasoning ...

thorough integration, we can expect that the children will learn from each other, and the present trend towards separation may b ...

desegregation will follow linguistic assimilation and the gradual disappearance of AAVE: If the mixed populations of our Philade ...

African American attitudes toward AAVE Within the African American community, discussions around AAVE seem to embody some of the ...

barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law. Because, in other words, the powerfu ...

Darlene tryin to teach me how to talk. She say US not so hot ... peoples think you dumb. What I care? I ast. I’m happy. But she ...

is found in the highly autobiographical account of the Simpson murder trial by the African American prosecutor, Christopher Dard ...

[Code-switching] actually facilitates the illiteracy and failure that educators seek to eliminate, promotes resistance to standa ...

Black English is a myth. It is basically speaking English and violating the correct rules of grammar” (Male audience member, Opr ...

syntax and embrace the mumbo-jumbo of ignorance – and dismiss it in the name of “Black pride.” (Rowan 1979: 36) Here Rowan, a jo ...