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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]
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 ...
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 ...
Cheryl A. Wall (October 29, 1948 – April 4, 2020) was a literary critic and professor of English at Rutgers University. One of the first black women to head an English department at a major research university, she worked for diversity in the literary canon as well as in the classroom. [2]
t. e. 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]
Valentin Voloshinov. Valentin Voloshinov. Valentin Nikolaevich Voloshinov ( Russian: Валенти́н Никола́евич Воло́шинов; June 18, 1895, St. Petersburg – June 13, 1936, Leningrad) was a Russian Soviet linguist, whose work has been influential in the field of literary theory and Marxist theory of ideology .
t. e. 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 identity theory is a theory that describes intergroup behaviour based on group membership. Markers of group membership can be arbitrary, e.g., coloured vests, a flip of a coin, etc., or non-arbitrary, e.g., gender, language, race, etc. Accent is a non-arbitrary marker for group membership that is potentially more salient than most other non-arbitrary markers such as race and visual cues ...