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Topic: Black English Vernacular

	Black English Bibliography
		It describes Black English as descending from a Creole language that was spoken by a vast majority of slaves.
		It considers the grammars of elderly and young speakers, indications that Black English is diverging from white speech, and the effects of contemporary developments on fl and white speech.
		The author states that Black English is not a separate language, but is a separate dialect, and the proof comes from its uniqueness (from standard English) in its the nature of its rules and the function of these rules within the language.
	www.uop.edu /education/jl/ebonics.html (6431 words)

	Black English Vernacular (Ebonics) and Educability
		The Oakland Public Unified School Board's recent attention to Ebonics, or Black English Vernacular, as one of the main causes of the scholastic shortcomings of Black youth has opened yet another controversial chapter in an ongoing national debate on the educability (that is, the ability to learn) of Black youth in America's inner cities.
		Black English and standard English are dialects because they are, for the most part, mutually intelligible.
		Different renditions of a parent Black English Vernacular conceivably have existed among the younger generations of Blacks residing in northern urban environments of the United States ever since large migrations of Blacks from the rural South began in the first half of the twentieth century.
	www.aawc.com /ebonicsarticle.html (4860 words)

	university honors program
		Charles Dorsett, the author of "Black English, Looking to the Future 21st Century Racism?", writes, "the fact of the matter is that millions of Americans use this variety of English, and a statiscally significant portion of them have trouble in school" (2).
		He mentions that it can be difficult for a teacher to understand a student who uses the Black English Vernacular and that it should be taught to the teacher so he or she can instruct the student in a more appropriate manner.
		Black people have a hard time trying to advance in society even if they speak perfect English; therefore, it is imperative that they teach their children proper English because a speaker of Ebonics will, more than likely, never be very successful.
	www.famu.edu /oldsite/acad/honors/journal/deyjus.html (2288 words)

	History of African American English in the U
		One theory holds that this variety of English developed from a pidgin that resulted from the conditions of the slave trade, during which speakers of different African languages were thrown together and forced to communicate through a pidgin language.
		Out of this developed a Black English creole spoken by the first generations of slaves born in North America.This creole can be heard today spoken by the Gullah and Geechee inhabitants of the Carolina Sea Islands.
		Black English is characterized by pronunciations (phonology), syntactic patterns (grammar), and morphological features (inflections) that in many instances also occur in other varieties of English.
	jan.ucc.nau.edu /~eng121-c/africanamerican_engl.htm (1925 words)

	Black English Vernacular (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		African-American Vernacular English (AAVE), also called Ebonics (seebelow), Black English, or Black English Vernacular (BEV) is a dialect of American English.Strictly speaking, there is some controversy in the larger community about whether it should be considered a dialect, but this isbased on difference of opinion about what it means to be a dialect.
		Similarto common Southern US English, the dialect is spoken in many African-American communities in the United States,especially in urban areas.
		AAVE is largely based on the Southern American English variety, an influence that has no doubt been reciprocal as the dialectsdiverged.
	www.therfcc.org /black-english-vernacular-4360.html (1437 words)

	Stylistic Variation in Black English Vernacular and the Teaching of College Composition. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Research indicates that most fls shift between a variety of social registers to produce inherent variability in the features of their speech, which in turn causes problems for college composition instruction.
		Writing teachers must avoid holding a stereotypic view of fl speech, be sensitive to the varying social registers of fl speech, and make fl students understand that the use of standard English variants does not necessitate a rejection of the students' own culture in favor of white middle class culture.
		Black students are accustomed to performing in high context situations, where there is a high degree of familiarity with the situation and the people in it and, consequently, an awareness of what social register of language to use.
	www.eric.ed.gov /sitemap/html_0900000b8010987e.html (211 words)

	trilogy.html
		For the Black English Vernacular the frame was the means of entering the literate culture and the frame also defines the purposes or ends for which fl vernacular speech could be employed.
		The Black English Vernacular creates the only valid terms for its world; the authority of its language is not subordinated to other codes; the literary frame is not visible African-American writers have created their own code of discourse from the resources of their oral tradition and the models of American literature.
		A fl woman's voice creates the only valid terms for this world, and the authority of her language is not subordinated to other codes; the written literary frame of American literature is not visible.
	webspace.ship.edu /rejani/trilogy.html (6938 words)

	CREOLE ENGLISH AND BLACK ENGLISH
		Black English Vernacular has a somewhat different history (and is a different language) from British Black English.
		A pidgin form of the European language (for example, English) was spoken by the traders on both sides of the transaction.
		Under these conditions, with very restricted contact between the slaves and the English crew, a pidgin developed which was used for communication not just between the slaves and their masters, but between the slaves themselves.
	www.ling.lancs.ac.uk /staff/mark/resource/creole.htm (3305 words)

	Search Results for "vernacular"
		A variety of such everyday language specific to a social group or region: the vernaculars of New York City.
		A group of vernacular Indic dialects spoken in northern India.
		Any of the vernacular and literary Indic languages recorded from the third century b.c.
	www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch?FILTER=col61&x=10&y=12&query=vernacular (234 words)

	FAST-US-1 (TRENPP2A) American English First Papers
		Although it does not apply to all Blacks in America, nor exclusively to Blacks (some White urban youth and White southerners possess similar speech patterns), BEV applies to the majority of the Black population and is therefore considered an ethnic dialect.
		Terms used by Blacks, such as "rap" or "chill", are often spread to mainstream society through the MTV generation, and by the time their use becomes popular with Whites as well, a new word to replace the old one is already being popularized in the Black community.
		Another characteristic of BEV is the absence of the "s" suffix of verbs conjugated in the third person singular.
	www.uta.fi /FAST/US1/P1/BE/jane.html (960 words)

	Educational CyberPlayGround: Definitions of American Virgin Islands Creole, American Indian, vernacular, ebonics, ...
		For example, speakers of Jamaican Creole call their language "patwa" (from patois) and speakers of Hawai'i Creole English call theirs "Pidgin." Note that the words "pidgin" and "creole" are technical terms used by linguists, and not necessarily by speakers of the language.
		''English in the Turks and Caicos Islands: A look at Grand Turk'', by Cecilia Cutler, is a very welcome presentation of the first linguistic research on the speech of the Turks and Caicos Islands.
		In ''An ''English Creole'' that isn't: On the sociohistorical origins and linguistic classification of the vernacular English of St. Lucia'', Garrett questions whether or not there is a variety of English on St. Lucia that can truly be described as a creole.
	www.edu-cyberpg.com /Linguistics/definitions.html (2267 words)

	Views of linguists and anthropologists on the Ebonics issue (Part 1)
		Black English has also been one of the major contributors of vocabulary to American English in general.
		The notion that there is something just plain "bad" about nonstandard varieties of English is so deeply imbedded in the minds of many people that they tend to believe that children speak Black English out of contrariness, and need to be corrected by punishment.
		African American children who speak the vernacular form of AAE may be the only English speaking children in this country who attend schools, in their own communities, where the teachers are not only ignorant of their dialect, but refuse to accept it exists.
	www.stanford.edu /~rickford/ebonics/LingAnthro1.html (2975 words)

	02/26/1998 - Pennsylvania Current: Labov's 1972 book is still something to talk about
		Most of this research was based on interviews with individual youngsters, and the children's limited responses led many to conclude that inner-city fl youth suffered from a lack of verbal stimulation and a primitive verbal culture.
		In failing to notice the logic of fl English vernacular and its ability to express complex ideas, he argued, educators and researchers mistakenly classed an entire social group as ignorant when all it lacked was the ability to use middle-class English to express itself.
		Labov also attacked scholars who used the surface contradictions of fl English vernacular to justify their view that fls were innately less intelligent than whites, and noted the damage such views caused in the classroom.
	www.upenn.edu /pennnews/current/1998/022698/Labov.html (823 words)

	Language Miniatures 15: African-American Vernacular (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		If you've ever heard young people speaking this variety of English, you may have gotten the impression that not only is the rhythm quite different, but they seem to be pronouncing many words in unfamiliar ways.
		In standard English, double modal auxiliaries are not permissible, but the inner-city vernacular has a very rich assortment of possible combinations.
		Inner-city English has always made its contributions to the American vernacular, and now pop culture is embracing it: hip-hop, dissin', keep it real, get your strut on.
	home.bluemarble.net /~langmin/miniatures/black.htm (827 words)

	blackeng.htm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Dillard, J. Black English: Its History and Usage in the United States.
		Language in the Inner City: Studies in the Black English Vernacular.
		Black English: Its Background and Its Usage in the Schools and in Literature.
	people.wcsu.edu /jambeckk/bibliog/blackeng.htm (215 words)

	Black Vernacular English: Definitions and Debate
		The Anglian tradition of scholars (Krapp,1925; Kurath,1949) believe that Black English is traceable to British dialects of Old and Middle English, which the slave picked up from white immigrants whom settled in the South during the colonial era.
		From this perspective Black English developed as a result of a language combining various European languages (depending on the region of the country and the immigrants settled there).
		Use of speech acts, that are either not in White English at all or are not used according to the same set of social rules of speaking.
	www.angelfire.com /zine2/hotel/black.html (753 words)

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	African American Vernacular English: A brief overview of AAVE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		In other words, AAVE is just "bad English." The creole hypothesis, however, maintains that modern AAVE is the result of a creole derived from English and various West African Languages.
		To be able to communicate in some fashion they developed a pidgin by applying English and some West African vocabulary to the familiar grammar rules of their native tongue.
		This pidgin was passed on to future generations, and as soon as it became the primary language of it's speakers it is classified as a creole.
	www.arches.uga.edu /~bryan/AAVE (258 words)

	African American Vernacular English (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		African American Vernacular English (AAVE) is the variety formerly known as Black English Vernacular or Vernacular Black English among sociolinguists, and commonly called Ebonics outside the academic community.
		Such variability in the speech both of groups and individuals reflects the complex social attitudes surrounding AAVE and other nonstandard varieties of English and it was this variability which initially attracted the attention of sociolinguists such as William Labov.
		Standard English also has agreement in a number of irregular and frequently used verbs such as has vs have and is vs are and was vs were.
	www.une.edu.au /langnet/aave.htm (2863 words)

	African-American English (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		This linguistic variety is commonly refered to as Black English (BE), Black English Vernacular (BE), African-American Vernacular English (AAVE), and Inner City English (ICE).
		Proponents of the decreolized creole theory maintain that African-American English arose from a pidgin that was created among slaves from various linguistic backgrounds, primarily from West Africa.
		Others state that African-American English is a variety of Southern States English, noting that the two varieties have many features in common, such as the Southern Vowel Shift, vowel lowering, and double modals.
	www.ic.arizona.edu /~lsp/AAEnglish.html (175 words)

	Black Vernacular (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Black Vernacular, the dialect of English often spoken by African Americans in urban and southern regions, is also known a "African American Vernacular English." Linguists abbreviate this term as AAVE in scholarly writing.
		John Algeo and Thomas Pyles note in The Origins and Development of the English Language that Black Vernacular in the twentieth century has been distinguished by differences in (1) diction, (2) pronunciation, (3) the use of the consuetudinal be and (4) a tendency to delete the
		For expanded discussion, see A. Baugh and Thomas Cable's A History of the English Language, 5th edition (Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ: 2002), pp.382-84, and John Algeo and Thomas Pyles' The Origins and Development of the English Language, 5th edition (Thompson and Wadsworth, Boston, Massachusetts: 2004): pp.
	web.cn.edu /kwheeler/black_vernacular.html (348 words)

	vernacular - alphaDictionary * Free English On-line Dictionary
		A regional or professional dialect, such as the vernacular of the Pennsylvania Dutch or the vernacular of a used car salesman.
		The noun expressing the nature of a vernacular is vernacularity, as the vernacularity (use of vernacular) detectable in someone's writing.
		Word History: Vernacular is an English adaptation of the Latin vernaculus "indigenous, domestic, native" from verna "a native, a slave born in the master's home", a word probably borrowed from Etruscan.
	www.alphadictionary.com /goodword/word/vernacular (331 words)

	Black Vernacular English: Definitions and Debate
		Personal interviews were used and classroom activities were designed that engage fl students in understanding that their personal voices are acceptable in their discourse communities or in narrative essays but not in academic discourse.
		Called Black Vernacular English (BVE) in the 1960s and 70s, African American Vernacular English (AAVE) in the 1980s and 90s, and Ebonic (without the "s") by the author, Ebonics has traditionally been considered a dialect of English by educators and linguists.
		AB: Explores problems involved in defining Black South African English, such as whether it is a new variety of English or a dialect and relating to whose English it is: the English of those learners who have encountered only a smattering of English in informal contexts or the variety of English acquired during formal schooling.
	www.indiana.edu /~reading/ieo/bibs/blckvern.html (2528 words)

	Black english vernacular (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Black dialect is referred to by many names: Ebonics, Black American dialect, Black English Vernacular, and African American dialect.
		This paper questions whether it is a bona fide language type, such as Black English Vernacular, in and of itself, or whether it is a dialect of BEV.
		"The Sources of Durative Habitual Be in the Black English Vernacular." Proceedings of the Sixth Biennial Conference of the Society of Caribbean Linguistics.
	www.websiteslink.com /q/black-english-vernacular.htm (993 words)

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