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there is a material difference between written and spoken languages, but her statement is ignored. The association of AAVE with ...

eliminate not all differences, but those which are unacceptable and divisive. The conflict between the wants of peripheralized g ...

The need to defend myself led me to use language as a weapon to deflect jokes about the “whiteness” of my spoken English and to ...

My mother said it was important that I learn English quickly. Otherwise the American students would make fun of me or, even wors ...

contexts, while she uses a more formal English in most public situations. During this filming she acted as a host to her invited ...

She quotes Jackson’s famous statement that “excellence is the best deterrent to racism” but fails to discuss her equation betwee ...

4. African Americans have a right to speak incorrectly if they want to, but other people shouldn’t be forced to suffer and liste ...

economic and social equality. She seems to see a role for herself here, in educating those who come after as a part of the proce ...

“dat.” She absolutely abhorred double negatives, and her face would screw up in pain at the sound of one. But her corrections al ...

situation the result. This was the sequence by which I converted kindness into harassment and my racial shame into her racism. F ...

responsibility (“If she had been Black, I might have seen this more easily”). His youthful AAVE speaking self relies on denial o ...

There are various ways individuals attempt to neutralize Smitherman’s “linguistic push–pull” and Du Bois’ “double consciousness” ...

fulfill democratic ideals the nation must be homogeneous and indivisible. In the 1960s, the courts put an official end to racial ...

Discussion Questions and Exercises This chapter does not include a discussion of the AAVE speech or expressive language features ...

both cases, professional sports broadcasters are expressing negative, even racist opinions about professional athletes who are a ...

aged African American woman in conflict with her adult children. Note how AAVE is used for the dialog of some characters but not ...

6 Linguists tend to use the term African American Vernacular English (AAVE) or African American English (AAE), but there are man ...

14 Labov has produced a tremendous body of work on AAVE, from multiple angles. He has been deeply involved in attempts to improv ...

Alim, H.S. (2009) Hip Hop Nation Language. In A. Duranti (ed.) Linguistic Anthropology: A Reader. New York: John Wiley and Sons. ...

Hillbillies, Hicks, and Southern Belles 11 The Language Rebels^1 The South eagerly defines itself against the North, advertising ...