Black English (The English Idiom)  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: ENGLISH TEACHING FORUM (http://exchanges.state.gov/englishteaching/forum/archives.html) vol. 33 no. 3 (Jul. 1995), page 39.
Fulltext: Black English.pdf (126.3KB)

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Reflecting a linguistic heritage from Africa and Europe as well as a history of slavery and separation in the United States, Black English is a fully formed linguistic system operating parallel to standard American English. Like other varieties of the language, Black English has its own set of grammatical and phonological rules as well as a special lexicon and rhetorical style to give it a unique character. An artifact not of race but of a speech community, Black English originated as a pidgin that the slaves (coming from a variety of language backgrounds) used to communicate among themselves. Over the years, the pidgin evolved into a Creole as more English words and structures were substituted for the West African terms to facilitate communication between slave and master. With emancipation in 1863, African Americans gradually entered the mainstream of American life and the Black English Creole began to lose some of its distinctive structural

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