The development of African American English /
This book focuses on one of the most persistent and controversial questions in modern sociolinguistics: the past and present development of African American Vernacular English (AAVE). Despite intense scrutiny of the historical and current development of AAVE, a number of issues remain unresolved. Mo...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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Oxford, U.K. ; Malden, Mass. :
Blackwell Publishers,
2002.
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| Series: | Language in society (Oxford, England) ;
31. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This book focuses on one of the most persistent and controversial questions in modern sociolinguistics: the past and present development of African American Vernacular English (AAVE). Despite intense scrutiny of the historical and current development of AAVE, a number of issues remain unresolved. 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 region of coastal North Carolina. This unique environment provides a venue for dealing with questions of localized dialect accommodation and ethnolinguistic distinctiveness in earlier African American English. The conclusions drawn challenge the Creolist, Anglicist, and neo-Anglicist positions with respect to the history of AAVE and offer insights into the development of African American speech in the twentieth century. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 237 pages) : maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-231) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780470690178 0470690178 9780470779903 047077990X 1281319686 9781281319685 9780631230878 0631230874 9786611319687 6611319689 |