Outline
1-Intoduction:
A: African American Vernacular English definition.
B: Origins.
C: Societies’ opinion.
2-Body Paragraph 1: A: Some sided with AAVE B: AAVE is a rule-governed and systematic language. C: Examples that serve as proof.
3-Body Paragraph 2: A: AAVE’s effect on its speakers. B: AAVE speakers face difficulties in professional settings. C: AAVE speakers manage to switch from dialect to another in order to blend in.
4-Body Paragraph 3: A: Linguists suggest the use of AAVE in class. B: The Oakland school board attempts to use AAVE to improve SE. C: Discouraging attitudes prove to be obstructing the educational improvement .
5- Conclusion: A: Racism is still traceable in today’s societies. B: AAVE speakers who attempt …show more content…
C: The attitude is stopping the progress.
The African American Tongue
AAVE is an acronym that stands for African American Vernacular English. It is a language mainly used by the urban working class or the bidilectal African American middle class. The origins of AAVE are a mater of debate. African American Vernacular English shares a large portion of its grammar with rural dialects of the southern United States and is characterized with pronunciation features that could be traced back to some creole languages in West Africa (Jones, 2014). A Creole origin hypothesis has been developed, proposing that it has English origins, noting that a large amount of its vocabulary comes from English and that the pronunciation and grammar could have arose from some none standard dialects of English indentured servants and workers who interacted with African slaves (Rickford, 1999). Another Dialect divergence hypothesis emphasizes AAVE’s African origins due to some very similar features that occur is both US AAVE and in West African English varieties …show more content…
AAVE speakers face several social injustices; their dialect has been referred to as “ the dialect of the pimp, the idiom of the gang-banger and the street thug, the jargon of the school dropout, a form of pidgin English that reeks of African American failure. … In essence, Ebonics is the ultimate residue, the greasy ring around the social bathtub, which I predicted would come about when a society succumbs to a lesser set of rules for some of its people”(McIntyre,----). Many labels have been given for just one dialect. Although AAVE was the chosen term to refer to the dialect of African Americans, several other terms were used such as “ Negro Dialect, Nonstandard English, Nonstandard Negro English, Black Dialect, Black Falk speech” and many other terms that emphasize the race of the majority of the dialect speakers. In some cases, the word English was eliminated in order to emphasize African and Creoles relations (Green, 2002). The phrase Black communication was also used, claiming that AAVE is more than just a speech, but a whole system of communication (Dany, 1991). This variety of labels designated for that one dialect, is the product of the negative attitude from Americans or none AAVE speakers in general. This negative attitude has a monumental impact on AAVE speakers’ lives. These people face difficulties building careers, finding proper jobs or attempting to change
1-Intoduction:
A: African American Vernacular English definition.
B: Origins.
C: Societies’ opinion.
2-Body Paragraph 1: A: Some sided with AAVE B: AAVE is a rule-governed and systematic language. C: Examples that serve as proof.
3-Body Paragraph 2: A: AAVE’s effect on its speakers. B: AAVE speakers face difficulties in professional settings. C: AAVE speakers manage to switch from dialect to another in order to blend in.
4-Body Paragraph 3: A: Linguists suggest the use of AAVE in class. B: The Oakland school board attempts to use AAVE to improve SE. C: Discouraging attitudes prove to be obstructing the educational improvement .
5- Conclusion: A: Racism is still traceable in today’s societies. B: AAVE speakers who attempt …show more content…
C: The attitude is stopping the progress.
The African American Tongue
AAVE is an acronym that stands for African American Vernacular English. It is a language mainly used by the urban working class or the bidilectal African American middle class. The origins of AAVE are a mater of debate. African American Vernacular English shares a large portion of its grammar with rural dialects of the southern United States and is characterized with pronunciation features that could be traced back to some creole languages in West Africa (Jones, 2014). A Creole origin hypothesis has been developed, proposing that it has English origins, noting that a large amount of its vocabulary comes from English and that the pronunciation and grammar could have arose from some none standard dialects of English indentured servants and workers who interacted with African slaves (Rickford, 1999). Another Dialect divergence hypothesis emphasizes AAVE’s African origins due to some very similar features that occur is both US AAVE and in West African English varieties …show more content…
AAVE speakers face several social injustices; their dialect has been referred to as “ the dialect of the pimp, the idiom of the gang-banger and the street thug, the jargon of the school dropout, a form of pidgin English that reeks of African American failure. … In essence, Ebonics is the ultimate residue, the greasy ring around the social bathtub, which I predicted would come about when a society succumbs to a lesser set of rules for some of its people”(McIntyre,----). Many labels have been given for just one dialect. Although AAVE was the chosen term to refer to the dialect of African Americans, several other terms were used such as “ Negro Dialect, Nonstandard English, Nonstandard Negro English, Black Dialect, Black Falk speech” and many other terms that emphasize the race of the majority of the dialect speakers. In some cases, the word English was eliminated in order to emphasize African and Creoles relations (Green, 2002). The phrase Black communication was also used, claiming that AAVE is more than just a speech, but a whole system of communication (Dany, 1991). This variety of labels designated for that one dialect, is the product of the negative attitude from Americans or none AAVE speakers in general. This negative attitude has a monumental impact on AAVE speakers’ lives. These people face difficulties building careers, finding proper jobs or attempting to change