LINB20H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Southern American English, Acting White, Hypercorrection
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Crossover effect: social class, lower class may speak way higher class speaks -> hypercorrection. Crossing: white person / upper class and use features of working class, opposite of acting white, unmarked uses features of marked. Most studied ethnic variety: lot of literature found on it. History and linguistics: linguistics, how verbs behave, sound system, pronunciation of words. What people think about it language. 3 resources (cite); 1 page; double space. Is aave a dialect or a language: dialect of standard english (used in media, literature, education, shares a lot of linguistic features, english language has different varieties african american is also a variety. Which one is it: broken english, standard english with mistakes, neither (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause (cid:449)e (cid:272)a(cid:374)(cid:859)t sa(cid:455) it is good/(cid:271)ad diale(cid:272)t, (cid:374)o o(cid:374)e that is superior. In linguistics we believe that they are all the same (equally) Bias is still there that they need to fix their english.
