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African American English (african + american_english)

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Humanities and Social Sciences100%

Selected Abstracts

African American English in the Diaspora

JOURNAL OF LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY, Issue 1 2006
Lisa Green
African American English in the Diaspora: By Shana Poplack and Sali Tagliamonte. Malden, MA. Blackwell. 2001. [source]

,Du hast jar keene Ahnung': African American English dubbed into German

JOURNAL OF SOCIOLINGUISTICS, Issue 4 2004
Robin Queen
This paper explores the translation of sociolinguistic variation by examining the ways that African American English (AAE) is dubbed into German. In discussing this ubiquitous yet poorly studied area of language use, I show that ideas about language as an index to social groupings are transferable to the degree that the ideas overlap in the cultures in question. In the case of German, if the character being dubbed is young, male and tied to the street cultures of the urban inner city, then AAE is dubbed using a form of German that has links to the urban youth cultures of north-central Germany. The transferability of sociolinguistic variation is important to issues related to cross-cultural communication and the ideologies that may play a role in the outcomes of that communication as well as to linguistic creativity and language style more generally. [source]