TY - BOOK ID - 78395924 TI - New Zealand English AU - Bell, Allan AU - Kuiper, Koenraad PY - 1999 VL - 27 SN - 9789027275479 9027275475 1556197233 9781556197239 9027248834 9789027248831 9027248850 1283358328 9786613358325 1588110451 9786612162329 1282162322 9027297983 158811046X 9781588110466 9781588110459 PB - Amsterdam Philadelphia John Benjamins Pub. Co. DB - UniCat KW - E-books KW - English language KW - Germanic languages KW - Social aspects KW - Variation KW - African Americans KW - Americanisms KW - Black English KW - Languages KW - Black English. KW - Americanisms. KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES KW - Linguistics / General KW - African American English KW - American black dialect KW - Ebonics KW - Negro-English dialects KW - Languages. KW - Dialects KW - English language - Social aspects - United States KW - African Americans - Languages KW - English language - Variation - United States UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78395924 AB - This volume, based on presentations at a 1998 state of the art conference at the University of Georgia, critically examines African American English (AAE) socially, culturally, historically, and educationally. It explores the relationship between AAE and other varieties of English (namely Southern White Vernaculars, Gullah, and Caribbean English creoles), language use in the African American community (e.g., Hip Hop, women's language, and directness), and application of our knowledge about AAE to issues in education (e.g., improving overall academic success). To its credit (since most books avoid the issue), the volume also seeks to define the term 'AAE' and challenge researchers to address the complexity of defining a language and its speakers. The volume collectively tries to help readers better understand language use in the African American community and how that understanding benefits all who value language variation and the knowledge such study brings to our society. ER -