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AAVE aspectual system






Example Name SE Meaning / Notes
He workin'. Simple progressive He is working [right now].
He be workin'. Habitual/continuative aspect He works frequently or habitually. Better illustrated with " He be workin' Tuesdays all month."
He be steady workin'. Intensified continuative He is always working.
He been workin'. Perfect progressive He has been working.
He been had that job. Remote phase (see below) He has had that job for a long time and still has it.
He done worked. Emphasized perfective He has worked. Syntactically, " He worked" is valid, but " done" is used to emphasize the completed nature of the action.[8]
He finna go to work. Immediate future He's about to go to work. Finna is a contraction of " fixing to"; though is also believed to show residual influence of late 16th century archaism " would fain (to)", that persisted until later in some rural dialects spoken in the Carolinas (near the Gullah region). " Fittin' to" is commonly thought to be another form of the original " fixin' (fixing) to", and it is also heard as fitna, fidna, fixna, and finsta. [9]

Slang: words or expressions that are very informal and are not considered suitable for more formal situations. Some slang is used only by a particular group of people.

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Lecture 6: The relationship between language and society, part 3: sexism, racism and linguistic inequality.

 

Our topics:

Subjective inequality: AAVE.

Strictly linguistic inequality: ESL speakers and technical language.

Communicative inequality: Speech norms and register.

 

Subjective inequality: subjective inequality is judging a person’s character, ability, and intelligence based on their speech—think intelligence and character.

 

Strictly linguistic inequality: strictly linguistic inequality relates to the judgment of a person based on the quantity of linguistic items a person knows, that is how much “knowledge” a person has about the language they are using—think how many words.

 

Communicative inequality: Communicative inequality is judgment based on a person’s ability to use the language in social situations / interactions —think speech norms.

 

AAVE: Perhaps the best example of subjective inequality is African American Vernacular English. African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) is a dialect used by many African Americans, particularly those from working-class or inner-city areas. It is variously called Black English, Black Vernacular English, Ebonics, and in a durogatory way, “jive”. We will call it AAVE the abbreviation of African-American Vernacular English. It clearly differs from other varieties of English in its vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation, but simply attaching it to one population group oversimplifies a complex situation.

 


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