Pidgins,Creoles,Dialects: AAE & Ebonics Flashcards
What are the characteristics of AAE (African American English)?
- Including verb BE (habitual actions)
* own morphology, syntax, phonology, rhetorical and semantic strategies
What is the difference between slang and AAE?
*AAE is spoken by a wide range of people in all sectors of society, and not restricted to small group that speaks slang
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How might dialect variations affect literacy and academic success?
Not making connections:
- verb tenses
- deleting letter endings
If a regional or social dialect variation hinders academic success, should dialect be used to accommodate instruction ?
Yes
What was the decision? & What happened in the court case of Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School vs. Ann Arbor Board of Education.
Case: Students being discriminated against based on race, social class and language
Decision: Confirmed language discrimination and ordered district to identify “black English” speakers to help teach students standard English
In the video of AAE, What is happening in the American Mastery Education Program (LA)?
Teaching kids to convert AAE to mainstream American mastery of school , while not devaluing the kids culture.
In the video of AAE, what is happening in the American Mastery Education Program (Palos Hills )?
Teaching young adults, and shaming them in learning Mainstream American English
What is Pidgin?
Simplified language developed as means of communication between two or more speakers of mutually inintelliglble languages
What is Stablizied Pidgin?
More complex & regular form
Example: Hawaiian Pidgin,West African English Pidgin,Nigerian Pidgin
What is Creole?
Expansion of pidgin evolving through generations and becoming a native language
What is a Dialect?
Mutually intelligible form of language that differs systematically.
What is Standard American English?
Grammar,Spelling, and conventions of how you’d write a paper
What is Signification?
Rhetorical or semantic strategy used to express sarcasm, iron, etc.
What are some phonological characteristics in AAE?
*Deleting final /t/ or /d?
*Voice ‘th’ as ‘d’ in the beginning of words
“voicing ‘f’ in place of ‘th’
*saying /l/ and /r/ as uh
*vowels are nasally
African American Vernacular English was changed to African American English. What is “Vernacular”?
Slang or non-standard
