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African American English: A Linguistic Introduction – eBook PDF

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  • Author: Lisa J. Green
  • File Size: 2 MB
  • Format: PDF
  • Length: 299 Pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press; Illustrated edition
  • Publication Date: August 8, 2002
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0521891388, 0521814499
  • ISBN-13: 9780521891387, 9780521814492, 9780511078231
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African American English: A Linguistic Introduction – eBook PDF

Lisa J. Green’s African American English: A Linguistic Introduction (PDF) triggered something of a feeling when it was very first released in 2002. Here we have a strenuous, in-depth assessment of the grammar, lexicon, and sociolinguistics of African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) composed by a native speaker, and furthermore of a lower pointed out dialect (New Orleans). All volumes in this Cambridge University Press series presume that the reader has training in linguistics, and Green’s work is no exception. If you have not taken basic linguistics courses, then a more available introduction to AAVE may be Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English.

This conclusive introduction to African American English (AAE) is the very first to take a thorough take a look at the grammar. It shows patterns in syntax, stereo, word development, and word use in a well-arranged way. It takes a look at education, speech activities in the nonreligious and spiritual worlds, and making use of AAE to build black images in literature and the media. It is needed reading for university student studying education, sociology, linguistics, African American research studies, and literature, and consists of workouts to accompany each chapter.

The grammar and lexicon of AAVE are covered in about half of the ebook. Green describes words that can just be discovered in AAVE (“kitchen area” in the significance of “hair on the neck”, “ashy” for skin, etc.). She then goes through the AAE’s overwelming selection of spoken markers in addition to its appealing syntactic standards, highlighting how this non-basic, low-eminence range can still be sophisticated and typical. Final consonant noises, devoicing, sound patterns, and th and liquid vocalisation are all covered in the phonology chapter.

The ebook’s 2nd half is dedicated to sociolinguistics. Green explains call-action, rap braggadocio, and “playing the hundreds” amongst the group of AAVE speakers in among the couple of volumes in this Cambridge series that covers speech occasions and guidelines of interaction. Green dedicates a whole chapter to AAVE in literature, from early, in some cases unreliable representations of black talk in minstrel reveals to AAE in African-American authors’ works. The last chapter goes over how AAVE is seen in the American public school system, and I was stunned to hear that speech pathologists are hired to “recover” speakers who have no problems with their speech organs and have actually just discovered this non-basic range natively.

This is an extremely in-depth work, with lots of recommendations to other research studies and examples of AAE’s variety that aren’t constantly obvious in other treatments. However, the book might have gained from more comprehensive modifying and typesetting. It’s simple to end up being disappointed by the quantity of information on and page. Green blends IPA and basic English orthography inside sentences for no evident factor, which triggers some inconveniences in transcription.

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