scholarly journals Abstracts: Sociolinguistics

2007 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 363-364
Keyword(s):  
African American Vernacular English ◽  
Long Beach ◽  
Vernacular English ◽  
Social Positioning ◽  
National University ◽  
Speakers Of Other Languages ◽  
Language And Education ◽  
Cosmopolitan Citizenship ◽  
Global Language ◽  
Narrative Performance

07–631Cargile, Aaron Castelan (California State U, Long Beach, USA), Jiro Takai & José I. Rodríguez, Attitudes toward African–American vernacular English: A US export to Japan?Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development (Multilingual Matters) 27.6 (2006), 443–456.07–632Coluzzi, Paolo (U Bristol, UK), Minority language planning and micronationalism in Italy: The cases of Lombardy and Friuli. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development (Multilingual Matters) 27.6 (2006), 457–471.07–633Domínguez Barajas, E. (Texas A&M University, USA), Parallels in academic and nonacademic discursive styles: An analysis of a Mexican woman's narrative performance. Written Communication (Sage) 24.2 (2007), 140–167.07–634Foley, Joseph (Assumption U, Thailand; [email protected]), English as a global language: My two satangs' worth. RELC Journal (Sage) 38.1 (2007), 7–17.07–635Guilherme, Manuela (U De Coimbra, Portgual), English as a Global language and education for cosmopolitan citizenship. Language and International Communication (Multilingual Matters) 7.1 (2007), 72–90.07–636Stroud, Christopher & Lionel Wee (National University of Singapore; [email protected]), A pedagogical application of liminalities in social positioning: Identity and literacy in Singapore. TESOL Quarterly (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages) 41.1 (2007), 33–54.

Defining the envelope of linguistic variation: The case of “don't count” forms in the copula analysis of African American Vernacular English

1997 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renée Blake
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
African American Vernacular English ◽  
Linguistic Variation ◽  
Final Position ◽  
Vernacular English ◽  
Quantitative Analyses ◽  
American Vernacular ◽  
Variable Analysis

ABSTRACTEver since Labov, Cohen, Robbins, and Lewis's (1968) pioneering study, it has been commonplace to set aside certain tokens in analyzing variability in the English copula as “don't count” (DC) forms. These cases are most often occurrences of the copula that exhibit categorical behavior (as with the full copula in clause-final position), as well as those that are ambiguous or indeterminate. In this article, I propose a set of copula forms that should be set aside from variable analysis as instances of DC forms to allow for systematic comparisons among studies. I review the major alternative descriptions of DC copula cases in the literature and analyze the behavior of the traditional DC categories. New data are presented to support the exclusion of particular DC cases from analyses of copula variability. Among the conclusions are that [was], [thas], and [is] should be excluded from quantitative analyses of variation in the copula because of their invariant status, and that a number of tokens commonly included (e.g., questions) should be excluded on various grounds.

African American Vernacular English and Reading

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Bloomquist ◽  
Lisa J. Green ◽  
Sonja L. Lanehart ◽  
William Labov ◽  
Bettina Baker
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
African American Vernacular English ◽  
Vernacular English ◽  
American Vernacular

scholarly journals Folk Perception of African American English Regional Variation

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Mitchell ◽  
Marivic Lesho ◽  
Abby Walker
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
African Americans ◽  
American English ◽  
African American Vernacular English ◽  
Uniform Structure ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Map Labeling ◽  
Perceptual Dialectology ◽  
Vernacular English ◽  
The Us

Contrary to previous “sociolinguistic folklore” that African American (Vernacular) English has a uniform structure across different parts of the US, recent studies have shown that it varies regionally, especially phonologically (Wolfram, 2007; Thomas & Wassink, 2010). However, there is little research on how Americans perceive AAE variation. Based on a map-labeling task, we investigate the folk perception of AAE variation by 55 participants, primarily African Americans in Columbus, Ohio. The analysis focuses on the dialect regions recognized by the participants, the linguistic features associated with different regions, and the attitudes associated with these beliefs. While the perceived regional boundaries mostly align with those identified by speakers in previous perceptual dialectology studies on American English, the participants consistently identified linguistic features that were specific to AAE. The participants recognized substantial phonological and lexical variation and identified “proper” dialects that do not necessarily sound “white”. This study demonstrates the value of considering African Americans’ perspectives in describing African American varieties of English.

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