African American Women’s Language Use in Response to Male Partners’ Condom Negotiation Tactics

This study explores the linguistic selection focusing on the use of N-word choice by African-American fiction writers. This study explains the basic concepts of language and language use, language as a text and discourse, and also the function it plays within the context. With Halliday and Hassan's semantic set of choices, this study argues that Zora Neale Hurston does not seem aware of consciously using N-words in her novel, but her use of Nword linguistic choice to communicate the theme of race is in line with her true reflection of the society and culture she is born and bred in. Hurston might have used N-word deliberately both to appropriate lexical choice with that of characters' roles as many of the Harlem Renaissance writers did and to establish a kind of community building and collective cultural solidarity, the major determinants of Hurston's use of the N-word in Their Eyes Were Watching God.

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African-American language use: Ideology and so-called obscenity

African-American English ◽

10.4324/9780203355596-18 ◽

2013 ◽

pp. 240-264

Keyword(s):

African American ◽

Language Use ◽

African American Language

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“wuz good wit u bro”: Patterns of Digital African American Language Use in Two Modes of Communication

Computers and Composition ◽

10.1016/j.compcom.2018.03.005 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 48 ◽

pp. 67-84 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jennifer M. Cunningham

Keyword(s):

African American ◽

Language Use ◽

African American Language

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Identity through Language: Use of African American English in the Plays of Lorraine Hansberry

DJ Journal of English Language and Literature ◽

10.18831/djeng.org/2016021004 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 19-25

Author(s):

Meera Rachel Selvaraj ◽

Keyword(s):

African American ◽

Language Use ◽

American English ◽

African American English ◽

Lorraine Hansberry

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Sexual agency versus relational factors: a study of condom use antecedents among high-risk young African American women

Sexual Health ◽

10.1071/sh07046 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 41 ◽

Cited By ~ 26

Author(s):

Richard A. Crosby ◽

Ralph J. DiClemente ◽

Gina M. Wingood ◽

Laura F. Salazar ◽

Sara Head ◽

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Keyword(s):

African American ◽

High Risk ◽

Condom Use ◽

African American Women ◽

Young Women ◽

Sexual Agency ◽

Male Partners ◽

American Women ◽

Relational Factors ◽

Hiv Acquisition

Background: The influence that female partners exert regarding condom use is not well known. In the present study, the relative roles of personal sexual agency and relational factors in determining whether young African American women engaged in unprotected vaginal sex (UVS) were studied. Methods: A cross sectional study of 713 young, African American women (aged 15–21 years) was conducted. Data were collected using an audio-computer assisted self-interview. Three measures of sexual agency were assessed and three relational factors were assessed. To help assure validity in the outcome measure, condom use was assessed in five different ways. Multivariate analyses were used to determine whether variables independently predicted UVS. Results: Two of the six predictor variables achieved multivariate significance with all five measures of condom use: (1) fear of negotiating condom use with male partners, and (2) indicating that stopping to use condoms takes the fun out of sex. A relational factor (male-dominated power imbalances) achieved multivariate significance for four of the five measures of UVS. A sexual agency factor (whether young women greatly enjoyed sex) achieved multivariate significance for three of the five measures. Conclusion: The results suggest that young African American women at high-risk of sexually transmissible infections (STI)/HIV acquisition may experience male-dominated power imbalances and also fear the process of negotiating condom use with their male partners. Although these factors were independently associated with UVS, two factors pertaining to sexual agency of these young women were also important predictors of UVS. Intervention efforts designed to avert STI/HIV acquisition among young African American women should therefore include programs to address both sexual agency and relational factors.

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Relational correlates of unprotected oral and vaginal sex and among African-American adolescent females

Sexual Health ◽

10.1071/sh12086 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 10 (3) ◽

pp. 284 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Richard A. Crosby ◽

Dexter R. Voisin ◽

Ralph J. DiClemente ◽

Gina M. Wingood ◽

Laura F. Salazar ◽

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Keyword(s):

African American ◽

Self Efficacy ◽

Protective Factor ◽

Sexual Communication ◽

Sexual Relationships ◽

African American Females ◽

African American Adolescent ◽

Condom Negotiation ◽

Vaginal Sex ◽

Communication Frequency

ObjectivesTo identify relational correlates of unprotected oral sex (UOS) and vaginal intercourse (UVI) among African-American females. Methods: Participants (n = 715) provided data on demographics, sexual communication self efficacy (SCSE), sexual communication frequency, condom self-efficacy, power in sexual relationships, fear of negotiating condom use, UOS and UVI. Results: Participants reporting low SCSE were 2.5 and 1.6 times more likely to report UOS and UVI respectively. Additionally, participants who reported fear of condom negotiation were 3.1 times more likely to report UVI. Conclusions: Interventions promoting stronger SCSE may be a protective factor against having UOS and UVI among African-American females.

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#aintnobodygottimeforthat: cultural appropriation, stylization and the social life of hashtag interjectionality

Scandinavian Studies in Language ◽

10.7146/sss.v10i1.114672 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 85-97

Author(s):

Anne H. Fabricius

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Social Media ◽

African American ◽

Social Life ◽

Language Use ◽

American English ◽

The United States ◽

Cultural Appropriation ◽

The Social ◽

The Future

Th is paper will discuss a particular hashtag meme as one example of a potential new manifestation of interjectionality, engendered and fostered in the written online context of social media. Th e case derives from a video meme and hashtag from the United States which ‘went viral’ in 2012. We will ask to what extent hashtags might perform interjectional-type functions over and above their referential functions, thereby having links to other, more prototypically interjectional elements. Th e case will also be discussed from multiple sociolinguistic perspectives: as an example of the (indirect) signifying of ‘whiteness’ through ‘black’ discourse, as cultural appropriation in the context of potential policing of these racial divides in the United States, and as a case of performative stylization which highlights grammatical markers while simultaneously downplaying phonological markers of African American English. We will end by speculating as to the implications of the rise of (variant forms of) hashtags for processes of creative language use in the future.

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