Dialect accommodation in a bi-ethnic mountain enclave community: More evidence on the development of African American English  

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Mallinson, Christine

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language in Society (ada di PROQUEST) vol. 31 no. 5 (Nov. 2002), page 743–775..
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The investigation of isolated African American enclave communities has been instrumental in reformulating the historical reconstruction of earlier African American English and the current trajectory of language change in African American Vernacular English (AAVE). This case study exam- ines a unique enclave sociolinguistic situatio n – a small, long-term, iso- lated bi-ethnic enclave community in the mountains of western North Carolina – to further understanding of the role of localized dialect accom- modation and ethnolinguistic distinctiveness in the historical development of African American English. The examination of a set of diagnostic pho- nological and morphosyntactic variables for several of the remaining Af- rican Americans in this community supports the conclusion that earlier African American English largely accommodated local dialects while main- taining a subtle, distinctive ethnolinguistic divide. However, unlike the situation in some other African American communities, there is no current movement toward an AAVE external norm for the lone isolated African American teenager; rather, there is increasing accommodation to the local dialect. Contact-based, identity-based, and ideologically based explana- tions are appealed to in describing the past and present direction of change for the African Americans in this receding community. (African American Vernacular English, Appalachian English, dialect, language change, lan- guage contact, language identity)*

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