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Ebonics remained a little-known term until 1996. It does not appear in the 1989 second edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, nor was it adopted by linguists. [14] The term became widely known in the United States due to a controversy over a decision by the Oakland School Board to denote and recognize the primary language (or sociolect or ethnolect) of African-American youths attending ...
Or consider the Ebonics controversy, the starkest example of how “defending” Standard English ends up denigrating everything that isn’t. In 1996, the Oakland School Board passed a resolution declaring that AAVE was a distinct language and that it should be welcomed in classrooms. The freakout was immediate and intense.
African-American English (or AAE; or Ebonics, also known as Black American English or simply Black English in American linguistics) is the umbrella term [1] for English dialects spoken predominantly by Black people in the United States and many in Canada; [2] most commonly, it refers to a dialect continuum ranging from African-American Vernacular English to more standard forms of English. [3]
Ebonics may refer to: African-American Vernacular English , a distinctive lect, or variety, of English spoken by African Americans, sometimes called Ebonics Ebonics (word) , originally referring to the language of the descendants of enslaved African people, but later coming to mean African-American Vernacular English
First edition (publ. Institute of Black Studies) Ebonics: The True Language of Black Folks is a 1975 book written by the American psychologist Robert Williams.Williams coined the term Ebonics two years earlier at a conference he organized on the topic of the "cognitive and language development of the African American child". [1]
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The Oakland School board approved that Ebonics be recognized as a language independent from English (though this particular view is not endorsed by linguists), that teachers would participate in recognizing this language, and that it would be used in theory to support the transition from Ebonics to Standard American English in schools.
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