ANTHRO 2D Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: African American Vernacular English, Mutual Intelligibility, Iggy Azalea
13 Feb 2018
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Anthro 2d - lecture 9 - language and identity: black english. Linguistic supremacy - some languages or language varieties are treated as superior to others. Peakers of the supposedl(cid:455) (cid:862)superior(cid:863) la(cid:374)guage (cid:272)a(cid:374) use the supposedl(cid:455) (cid:862)i(cid:374)ferior(cid:863) language however they want e(cid:448)e(cid:374) if it(cid:859)s i(cid:374)(cid:272)orre(cid:272)t without being stigmatized for using the devalued language. Media expressed surprise that obama was an articulate black man even though he is more educated than both bush and trump. In the trayvon martin case, when his friend, a black woman, testified, because she was speaki(cid:374)g (cid:862)bla(cid:272)k e(cid:374)glish(cid:863) the(cid:455) did(cid:374)(cid:859)t take her seriousl(cid:455) Southern u. s. english + west african languages + unique elements. Aae is not slang (though, like any language, it contains slang) Aae is not a (cid:862)(cid:271)roke(cid:374)(cid:863) for(cid:373) of ta(cid:374)dard e(cid:374)glish. Aae has systematic phonological, morphological, and syntactic features. Simplified consonant clusters test tes, sta(cid:374)d sta(cid:374), the(cid:373) de(cid:373) (cid:862)he sa(cid:455) he (cid:374)ot read(cid:455) to get (cid:373)arried(cid:863) (cid:862) he do(cid:374)(cid:859)t (cid:271)elie(cid:448)e (cid:374)othi(cid:374)(cid:859) i tell her(cid:863)
