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Talking Black in America
English Today ( IF 1.156 ) Pub Date : 2019-02-19 , DOI: 10.1017/s0266078418000500
Walt Wolfram , Kellynoel Waldorf

African American Language (AAL) is the most widely recognized – and controversial – ethnic variety of English in the world. In the United States national controversies about the speech of African Americans have erupted periodically for more than a half-century now, from the difference-deficit debates in the 1960s (Labov, 1972) to the Ebonics controversy in the 1990s (Rickford, 1999) and linguistic profiling in the 2000s (Baugh, 2003, 2018). Further, the adoption of performance genres from AAL into languages other than English, such as hip-hop and rap, has given the speech of African Americans even wider international recognition and global status (Omoniyi, 2006). The curiosities and controversies about African American speech symbolically reveal (1) the depth of people's beliefs and opinions about language differences; (2) the widespread level of public misinformation about language diversity; and (3) the need for informed knowledge about language variation in public life and in education.

中文翻译:

在美国说黑人

非裔美国人语言 (AAL) 是世界上最广为人知且最具争议的种族英语。在美国,从 1960 年代的差异赤字辩论 (Labov, 1972) 到 1990 年代的 Ebonics 争议 (Rickford, 1999),美国关于非裔美国人演讲的全国性争议已经周期性爆发了半个多世纪。和 2000 年代的语言分析(Baugh,2003,2018)。此外,将 AAL 的表演流派应用到英语以外的语言中,例如嘻哈和说唱,使非裔美国人的演讲获得了更广泛的国际认可和全球地位(Omoniyi,2006 年)。对非裔美国人演讲的好奇和争议象征性地揭示了(1)人们对语言差异的信仰和观点的深度;(2) 关于语言多样性的公共错误信息普遍存在;(3) 对公共生活和教育中语言变化的知情知识的需求。
更新日期:2019-02-19
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