Some African-American perspectives on Black English vernacular
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2898307 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Barbara Lynn Speicher (DePaul University), Seane M Mcmahon (0000-0001-8302-6908) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 383-407 |
| Publication date | 1992-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language in Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-4045 • E-ISSN: 1469-8013 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0047404500015499 |
| OpenAlex | W2159210458 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 27 |
Sixteen African Americans affiliated with a university participated in open-ended interviews exploring their experiential, attitudinal, and descriptive responses to Black English Vernacular (BEV). The fields of sociolinguistics and education report complex and contradictory attitudes and research findings regarding this code. In addition, media representations of BEV have been misleading. This article investigates how these sources have influenced the attitudes of these African Americans over the last 20 years. We found few trends and little unanimity among our respondents. This finding is neither problematic nor surprising. African Americans do not comprise a monolithic group, acting, speaking, and thinking as one. The results are summarized, and three issues that emerged from the interviews are discussed: problems with the label,BlackEnglish Vernacular; the possibility that BEV was socially constructed; and the perception that BEV is a limited linguistic system. (Sociolinguistics, education, attitudes toward language varieties, Black English Vernacular
Linguistics · Perception · Political science · Sociolinguistics · Sociology · Unanimity · Vernacular · Gender Studies · Gender Studies in Language · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy · Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,29 |
| Citation span | 1992 - 2021 (30) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |