The Evolution of AAVE in a Rural Texas Community
Author: Patricia Cukor-Avila
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 602
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Sociocultural and Historical Contexts of African American English
Author: Sonja L. Lanehart
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2001-10-10
Total Pages: 391
ISBN-13: 9027297983
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume, based on presentations at a 1998 state of the art conference at the University of Georgia, critically examines African American English (AAE) socially, culturally, historically, and educationally. It explores the relationship between AAE and other varieties of English (namely Southern White Vernaculars, Gullah, and Caribbean English creoles), language use in the African American community (e.g., Hip Hop, women’s language, and directness), and application of our knowledge about AAE to issues in education (e.g., improving overall academic success). To its credit (since most books avoid the issue), the volume also seeks to define the term ‘AAE’ and challenge researchers to address the complexity of defining a language and its speakers. The volume collectively tries to help readers better understand language use in the African American community and how that understanding benefits all who value language variation and the knowledge such study brings to our society.
The Historical Evolution of Earlier African American English
Author: Alexander Kautzsch
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2012-05-02
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 3110907976
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on a 500,000 word corpus of early sources collected from ex-slave narratives, ex-slave recordings, and interviews with hoodoo priests, this book reconstructs the English spoken by African Americans between 1830 and 1920. By means of detailed quantitative analyses, three linguistic features (negation patterns, copula usage, and relative marker choice) are interpreted along the lines of temporal change, regional diversity, and variation across gender. Additionally, some 300 non-standard letters written by African Americans in the 19th century are compared to the main corpus in order to identify differences between speech and writing.
Making Waves
Author: Sali A. Tagliamonte
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2015-08-25
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 1118455444
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMaking Waves tells the human story of an academic field based on one-to-one interviews with 43 of the most famous scholars in Variationist Sociolinguistics. Explanations of concepts, ideas, good practice and sage advice come directly from the progenitors of the discipline. An authentic, inside story about the origins of Sociolinguistics as Language Variation and Change, recording the context and spirit of sociolinguistics Gives students access to the views on language variation of major sociolinguists such as Bill Labov and Peter Trudgill Offers a human story of an academic field, and is written in the style of a novel, offering complete accessibility with minimal in-group terminology Provides a timely audio archive of the reminiscences of the major Sociolinguists, including Labov, Fasold, Milroy, Trudgill, and Wolfram, with a companion website featuring 400 audio clips from the interviews. Visit the site at www.wiley.com/go/tagliamonte/makingwaves
The Handbook of Language Variation and Change
Author: J. K. Chambers
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2018-05-01
Total Pages: 628
ISBN-13: 1119457084
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReflecting a multitude of developments in the study of language change and variation over the last ten years, this extensively updated second edition features a number of new chapters and remains the authoritative reference volume on a core research area in linguistics. A fully revised and expanded edition of this acclaimed reference work, which has established its reputation based on its unrivalled scope and depth of analysis in this interdisciplinary field Includes seven new chapters, while the remainder have undergone thorough revision and updating to incorporate the latest research and reflect numerous developments in the field Accessibly structured by theme, covering topics including data collection and evaluation, linguistic structure, language and time, language contact, language domains, and social differentiation Brings together an experienced, international editorial and contributor team to provides an unrivalled learning, teaching and reference tool for researchers and students in sociolinguistics
African-American English
Author: Salikoko S. Mufwene
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-09-30
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 1000428168
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book was the first to provide a comprehensive survey of linguistic research into African-American English and is widely recognised as a classic in the field. It covers both the main linguistic features, in particular the grammar, phonology, and lexicon as well as the sociological, political and educational issues connected with African-American English. The editors have played key roles in the development of African-American English and Black Linguistics as overlapping academic fields of study. Along with other leading figures, notably Geneva Smitherman, William Labov and Walt Wolfram, they provide an authoritative diverse guide to these vitally important subject areas. Drawing on key moments of cultural significance from the Ebonics controversy to the rap of Ice-T, the contributors cover the state of the art in scholarship on African-American English, and actively dispel misconceptions, address new questions and explore new approaches. This classic edition has a new foreword by Sonja Lanehart, setting the book in context and celebrating its influence. This is an essential text for courses on African-American English, key reading for Varieties of English and World Englishes modules and an important reference for students of linguistics, black studies and anthropology at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.
English with an Accent
Author: Rosina Lippi-Green
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1997-04-24
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780415114769
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn English with an Accent Rosina Lippi-Green examines American attitudes towards language, exposing the way in which language is used to maintain and perpetuate social structures.
The Oxford Handbook of African American Language
Author: Sonja L. Lanehart
Publisher: Oxford Handbooks
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 945
ISBN-13: 0199795398
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffers a set of diverse analyses of traditional and contemporary work on language structure and use in African American communities.
Principles of Linguistic Change, Volume 3
Author: William Labov
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2010-11-01
Total Pages: 451
ISBN-13: 1405112158
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten by the world-renowned pioneer in the field of modern sociolinguistics, this volume examines the cognitive and cultural factors responsible for linguistic change, tracing the life history of these developments, from triggering events to driving forces and endpoints. Explores the major insights obtained by combining sociolinguistics with the results of dialect geography on a large scale Examines the cognitive and cultural influences responsible for linguistic change Demonstrates under what conditions dialects diverge from one another Establishes an essential distinction between transmission within the community and diffusion across communities Completes Labov’s seminal Principles of Linguistic Change trilogy
Language Variety in the South Revisited
Author: Cynthia Bernstein
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2014-01-22
Total Pages: 656
ISBN-13: 0817357440
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTop linguists from diverse fields address language varieties in the South. Language Variety in the South Revisited is a comprehensive collection of new research on southern United States English by foremost scholars of regional language variation. Like its predecessor, Language Variety in the South: Perspectives in Black and White (The University of Alabama Press, 1986), this book includes current research into African American vernacular English, but it greatly expands the scope of investigation and offers an extensive assessment of the field. The volume encompasses studies of contact involving African and European languages; analysis of discourse, pragmatic, lexical, phonological, and syntactic features; and evaluations of methods of collecting and examining data. The 38 essays not only offer a wealth of information about southern language varieties but also serve as models for regional linguistic investigation.
