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  2. African-American Vernacular English - Wikipedia

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    African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) may be considered a dialect, ethnolect or sociolect. [ 22] While it is clear that there is a strong historical relationship between AAVE and earlier Southern U.S. dialects, the origins of AAVE are still a matter of debate. The presiding theory among linguists is that AAVE has always been a dialect of ...

  3. African-American Vernacular English and social context

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    African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) is a nonstandard dialect of English deeply embedded in the culture of the United States, including popular culture. It has been the center of controversy about the education of African-American youths, the role AAVE should play in public schools and education, and its place in broader society. [1]

  4. African-American English - Wikipedia

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    African-American English (or AAE; or Ebonics, also known as Black American English or simply Black English in American linguistics) is the set of English sociolects spoken by most Black people in the United States and many in Canada; [1] most commonly, it refers to a dialect continuum ranging from African-American Vernacular English to a more standard American English. [2]

  5. Stylistics - Wikipedia

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    Linguistics. Stylistics, a branch of applied linguistics, is the study and interpretation of texts of all types, but particularly literary texts, and/or spoken language in regard to their linguistic and tonal style, where style is the particular variety of language used by different individuals and/or in different situations or settings. For ...

  6. Basil Bernstein - Wikipedia

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    Basil Bernstein. Basil Bernard Bernstein (1 November 1924 – 24 September 2000) [1] was a British sociologist known for his work in the sociology of education. He worked on socio-linguistics and the connection between the manner of speaking and social organization.

  7. Accent (sociolinguistics) - Wikipedia

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    In sociolinguistics, an accent is a way of pronouncing a language that is distinctive to a country, area, social class, or individual. [1] An accent may be identified with the locality in which its speakers reside (a regional or geographical accent), the socioeconomic status of its speakers, their ethnicity (an ethnolect), their caste or social class (a social accent), or influence from their ...

  8. Philosophy of education - Wikipedia

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    The philosophy of education is the branch of applied philosophy that investigates the nature of education as well as its aims and problems. It also examines the concepts and presuppositions of education theories. It is an interdisciplinary field that draws inspiration from various disciplines both within and outside philosophy, like ethics ...

  9. Practice theory - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Practice theory (or praxeology, theory of social practices) is a body of social theory within anthropology and sociology that explains society and culture as the result of structure and individual agency. Practice theory emerged in the late 20th century and was first outlined in the work of the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu .