African American English in the diaspora / Shana Poplack and Sali Tagliamonte.
Material type: TextSeries: Language in society (Oxford, England) ; 30.Publisher: Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2001Description: xx, 293 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0631212655
- 9780631212652
- 0631212663
- 9780631212669
- African Americans -- Languages
- English language -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- Colonies
- English language -- Social aspects -- United States
- English language -- Variation -- United States
- Blacks -- Caribbean Area -- Languages
- Blacks -- Canada -- Languages
- Black English
- Americanisms
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Languages
- 427.08996073 21
- PE3102.N42 P66 2001
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / William Labov -- 1. Introduction -- 2. African Americans in the Samana Peninsula -- 3. African Americans in Nova Scotia: Settlement and Data -- 4. External Controls -- 5. Method -- 6. The Past Tense -- 7. The Present Tense -- 8. The Future Tense -- 9. Conclusions: An Essay on the Origins and Development of African American English.
"This volume investigates the origins of contemporary African American Vernacular English (AAVE), one of the oldest, yet unsolved, questions in sociolinguistics. Exploring the hypothesis that contemporary AAVE is a direct descendant of colonial British English rather than of a widespread creole precursor, this volume presents a comprehensive analysis of tense and aspect as manifested in recorded conversations with 101 former slaves and their descendants. The study is staged in three distinct "diaspora" enclaves in Canada and the Caribbean, whose language has evolved independently of AAVE, modern creoles, and neighboring speech varieties.
Advanced quantitative methodology, combined with linguistically precise analyses of English dialects in historical context, make this an essential text for researchers and students of linguistics, the history of English and African American Studies."--Jacket.
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