Shared spaces, shared structures: Latino social formation and African American English in the U.S. south  

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Carter, Phillip M.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Sociolinguistics (Full Text) vol. 17 no. 1 (2013), page 66-92.
Topik: Latino English; African American English; adolescent language; social formation; ethnography; identity
Fulltext: Carter_Phillip_M.pdf (222.57KB)

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This study examines the appropriation of grammatical structures of African American English (AAE) by adolescent Latinos attending a multi-ethnic middle school in North Carolina. The study couples quantitative variationist analysis of four ‘core’ grammatical features of AAE (invariant be, copula deletion, past-tense copula leveling, and third-person singular –s absence) with the findings of an ethnographic study of Latino adolescent identity in order to better understand the social processes leading to the incorporation of AAE grammar into English varieties spoken by Latinos. Results show that Latino students from across social formations make use of AAE grammatical features, but differ significantly from African American students in terms of sociolinguistic patterning. Ethnographic data shed light on linguistic data in three domains: (1) differences in use of AAE structures between male and female Latino/a students; (2) the prolific use of AAE by one gang-affiliated student; and (3) the racial complexities within the ethnic category ‘Latino.’

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