Week 2 - Language attitudes and AAVE Flashcards
Quote about language discrimination
Why is it okay to discriminate on language grounds but unacceptable to discriminate in terms of race, gender etc.
Rosina Lippi-Green (1997)
What 5 methods are used in perceptual dialectology?
- Matched Guise test
- Self-reporting
- Dialect maps
- Judgement of specific features
- Portrayal of accents (in films etc.)
What are the boundaries called on a dialect map?
Isoglosses
Dialect maps study
Name
Year
Area
Results
Preston 2003
- America
- Students from Alabama (SE) and Michigan (Mid-West)
- West seen as more correct, South least correct
- Michigan students said West more pleasant
- Alabama students said South East more pleasant
Define and exemplify quotative
- Marks quoted speech or actions
- Saying ‘like’ eg. she was like I’m going home
- New quotatives using ‘like’ as a discourse marker
Disney movies analysis
Name
Date
Points
Rosina Lippi-Green 1997
- Accent used by actors to establish character
- Aladdin: Villains have foreign accents
What does calling AAE ‘vernacular’ suggest?
Name
Date
Lisa Green 2004
- It is a spoken language with stigmatised patterns
What are some features of AAVE?
Name
Date
- Third person present -s omitted (she walk)
- Noun plural -s omitted (I know three girl)
- Possessive -s omitted (The girl one)
- Habitual be (I be here a lot)
Fasold 1981
What is the Creolist AAVE theory?
- Slaves in the US spoke a creolised form of English
- Differences in AAVE and standard are due to creolisation process and African language influences
- They compare AAVE with English creoles and they have similar features
What is the Anglicist AAVE theory?
AAVE features can be traced back to varieties of American English, just not the standard
What is the comparative model?
Name
Date
Poplack and Tagliamonte 2001
- Two languages sharing features not by accident, borrowing or universals
- It rose from a common ancestral source
- Goal to recover info from descendants about the source
Debate for AAVE
- Follows different rules and it is not incorrect
- Lippi-Green; it is a dialect, we have no right to discriminate and it is wrong
- Allowing children to use it enables them to
Debate against AAVE
- It is not a dialect, it is a separate language
What was the main debate about AAVE?
Location
Date
Details
- Oakland school district
- 1996
- Use of Ebonics legitimised
- Caused media storm
Define Standardising Prescriptivism
Creation of rules to enforce standard forms of speech/words
