DEVELOPMENT OF AFRICAN AMERICAN ENGLISH by Walt Wolfram, Erik Thomas ( 9780631230878 )

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DEVELOPMENT OF AFRICAN AMERICAN ENGLISH

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ISBN 10:

0631230874

ISBN 13:

9780631230878

Publisher:

JOHN WILEY AND SONS LTD

Pub. date:

15 April, 2002

Series:

Language in Society

Pages:

256

Description:

This volume focuses on the past and present development of African American vernacular English, particularly its development during the antebellum period and its trajectory of change in 20th-century. It studies an isolated bi-racial community situated in a distinctive dialect region.

Synopsis:

This book focuses on one of the most persistent and controversial questions in modern sociolinguistics: the past and present development of African American Vernacular English (AAVE). Despite intense scrutiny of the historical and current development of AAVE, a number of issues remain unresolved. Most prominent among these is the development of African American English during the antebellum period and the trajectory of change in twentieth-century AAVE. This book addresses both of these issues by examining an unparalleled sociolinguistic situation involving a long-standing, isolated, biracial community situated in a distinctive dialect region of coastal North Carolina. This unique environment provides a venue for dealing with questions of localized dialect accommodation and ethnolinguistic distinctiveness in earlier African American English. The conclusions drawn challenge the Creolist, Anglicist, and neo-Anglicist positions with respect to the history of AAVE and offer insights into the development of African American speech in the twentieth century.

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