Sökning: "African-American English"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 13 uppsatser innehållade orden African-American English.

  1. 1. Will the Marigolds ever grow? : Race in The Bluest Eye and the Pedagogical Potential of CRT

    Magister-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Författare :Fadumo Mohamed Ibrahim; [2023]
    Nyckelord :The Bluest Eye; CRT; Different modes of Racism; Pedagogy; Narrative strategies; Communal Familial ties.;

    Sammanfattning : The novel The Bluest Eye highlights different modes of racism that is relevant to engage with in today’s society. From a pedagogical standpoint, novels of this nature can enable rich and fruitful discussions about the implication of racism and how to counter it. LÄS MER

  3. 2. This shit gonna get real heavy - A quantitative study on the use of African-American Vernacular English in The Wire and The Princess and the Frog. : This shit gonna get real heavy - En kvantitativ studie om hur afroamerikansk engelska används i The Wire och Prinsessan och grodan.

    L3-uppsats, Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)

    Författare :Viktor Everstam; [2021]
    Nyckelord :African-American Vernacular English; AAVE; English; entertainment; linguistics;

    Sammanfattning : The purpose of this study is to investigate how the spoken variety African-American VernacularEnglish (AAVE) is used in entertainment. This is performed by comparing the spoken language oftwo fictional characters from two different sources of entertainment who are depicted as AAVEspeakers. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Grammatical features of African American Vernacular English in the movie Sextuplets : A sociolinguistics study of the speech of the two African American characters Alan and Dawn

    Kandidat-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Författare :Maria Helgotsson; [2021]
    Nyckelord :Sociolinguistics; AAVE; African American Vernacular English; movie transcript; Sextuplets;

    Sammanfattning : African American Vernacular English (AAVE) has been extensively explored in previous research in sociolinguistics. However, the portrayal of the sociolect in movies is still not widely researched. LÄS MER

  5. 4. The Aspects of “Be” in selected rap and Hip Hop lyrics: A marker of cultural identity?

    Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Författare :Beatriz Helgotsson; [2019-12-16]
    Nyckelord :engelska; African American Vernacular English; grammar; Hip Hop Nation Language; cultural identity; sociolinguistics;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this study is to investigate the use of the African American English (AAVE) verb be in lyrics written and performed by four African American rappers, Kendrick Lamar, J. Cole, Gucci Mane and Future. This paper also demonstrates how the verb be in AAVE is used by these rappers to construct cultural identity. LÄS MER

  7. 5. The Voice of the Voiceless : The use of African American Vernacular English and linguistic discourses in Tupac Shakur's Changes

    Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan Väst/Avd för utbildningsvetenskap och språk

    Författare :Zahra Motavalli; [2019]
    Nyckelord :African American Vernacular English; discourse; representation; political activism; Tupac Shakur; Engelska; diskurser; representation; politisk aktivism; språkbruk;

    Sammanfattning : Tupac Amaru Shakur was a successful African American musician, poet, and actor most renowned for tackling controversial subject matters in his music as well as using it as a platform to highlight his political opinions and social activism. Tupac used African American Vernacular English (AAVE) in his music. LÄS MER