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The language of professional blackness: African American English at the intersection of race, place, and class in southeast Washington, D.C.

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書名/作者:	The language of professional blackness: African American English at the intersection of race, place, and class in southeast Washington, D.C.
作者:	Grieser, Jessica A.
面頁冊數:	241 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-08(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International76-08A(E).
標題:	Linguistics.
標題:	African American studies.
標題:	Black studies.
標題:	Sociolinguistics.
ISBN:	9781321635690
摘要、提要註:	Increasingly, studies of African American English (AAE) include in their scope the speech of upper and middle-class African Americans (Rahman 2008; Weldon 2011; Alim and Smitherman 2012; Weldon and Britt forthcoming), rather than focusing on the working class males historically privileged as the most authentic speakers of the variety (Labov 1966, 1972; Fasold 1972). Relatively little scholarship, however, has focused on the speech of African Americans in a heavily class-mixing environment.
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The language of professional blackness: African American English at the intersection of race, place, and class in southeast Washington, D.C.
Grieser, Jessica A.

The language of professional blackness: African American English at the intersection of race, place, and class in southeast Washington, D.C. - 241 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-08(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Georgetown University, 2015.

Increasingly, studies of African American English (AAE) include in their scope the speech of upper and middle-class African Americans (Rahman 2008; Weldon 2011; Alim and Smitherman 2012; Weldon and Britt forthcoming), rather than focusing on the working class males historically privileged as the most authentic speakers of the variety (Labov 1966, 1972; Fasold 1972). Relatively little scholarship, however, has focused on the speech of African Americans in a heavily class-mixing environment.

ISBN: 9781321635690Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Linguistics.

The language of professional blackness: African American English at the intersection of race, place, and class in southeast Washington, D.C.
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520 $a The statistical results for FCD are consistent with other findings: individual speaker variation accounts for the majority of the data. The intraspeaker patterning of FCD, however, suggests that professional class African Americans orient to an iconized idea of devoicing as precise pronunciation, allowing them to recruit a second-order indexical meaning (Silverstein 2003) of "correctness," which they then use to enact the identity of "professional class.".
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