Essays about: "African American Vernacular English"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the words African American Vernacular English.

  1. 1. This shit gonna get real heavy - A quantitative study on the use of African-American Vernacular English in The Wire and The Princess and the Frog. : This shit gonna get real heavy - En kvantitativ studie om hur afroamerikansk engelska används i The Wire och Prinsessan och grodan.

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)

    Author : Viktor Everstam; [2021]
    Keywords : African-American Vernacular English; AAVE; English; entertainment; linguistics;

    Abstract : The purpose of this study is to investigate how the spoken variety African-American VernacularEnglish (AAVE) is used in entertainment. This is performed by comparing the spoken language oftwo fictional characters from two different sources of entertainment who are depicted as AAVEspeakers. READ MORE

  3. 2. Grammatical features of African American Vernacular English in the movie Sextuplets : A sociolinguistics study of the speech of the two African American characters Alan and Dawn

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Maria Helgotsson; [2021]
    Keywords : Sociolinguistics; AAVE; African American Vernacular English; movie transcript; Sextuplets;

    Abstract : African American Vernacular English (AAVE) has been extensively explored in previous research in sociolinguistics. However, the portrayal of the sociolect in movies is still not widely researched. READ MORE

  4. 3. The Aspects of “Be” in selected rap and Hip Hop lyrics: A marker of cultural identity?

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Beatriz Helgotsson; [2019-12-16]
    Keywords : engelska; African American Vernacular English; grammar; Hip Hop Nation Language; cultural identity; sociolinguistics;

    Abstract : The aim of this study is to investigate the use of the African American English (AAVE) verb be in lyrics written and performed by four African American rappers, Kendrick Lamar, J. Cole, Gucci Mane and Future. This paper also demonstrates how the verb be in AAVE is used by these rappers to construct cultural identity. READ MORE

  5. 4. The Voice of the Voiceless : The use of African American Vernacular English and linguistic discourses in Tupac Shakur's Changes

    University essay from Högskolan Väst/Avd för utbildningsvetenskap och språk

    Author : Zahra Motavalli; [2019]
    Keywords : African American Vernacular English; discourse; representation; political activism; Tupac Shakur; Engelska; diskurser; representation; politisk aktivism; språkbruk;

    Abstract : Tupac Amaru Shakur was a successful African American musician, poet, and actor most renowned for tackling controversial subject matters in his music as well as using it as a platform to highlight his political opinions and social activism. Tupac used African American Vernacular English (AAVE) in his music. READ MORE

  6. 5. Non-Standard "-ed" Forms of Selected Irreguslar Verbs: A Corpus-based Study of Present-day American English

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Eric Wikström; [2013-06-28]
    Keywords : irregular verbs; -ed forms; non-standard usage; present-day American English; past participle; preterit; COCA Corpus of Contemporary American English ; standardization; variation; AAVE African America Vernacular English ; SWVE Southern White Vernacular English ;

    Abstract : This is a corpus-based study which aims to survey the parallel use of non-standard preterit and past participle "-ed" forms in a group of irregular verbs (namely "blow", "grow", "know", and "throw") in Present-day American English and to determine in what media, style registers, and text types such non-standard verb forms occur. The data for this analysis is provided by the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) which comprises texts from the period of 1990 - 2010. READ MORE