-Niger-Congo (African)
-creole and Caribbean languages
-Interaction between English and Africans
100
What does LWC stand for?
Language of Wider Communication
100
What languages and dialects are dialects in African American English?
-US Ebonics
-Standard American English/LWC
-Non-standard American English
-Arabic, Spanish, Swahili, Creole, and other foreign languages
200
What does the speech-act theory indicate?
Indicates that communication succeeds or fails as a result of the illocutionary (that is intended) and perlouctionary (that is received) effects of a message.
200
What does signification mean?
A ritualized kind of put-down, an insult, a way of talking about
200
What was the Black Codes designed to do?
Restrict the movements of the enslaved African population to gain control and ensure free labor.
300
What was the black freedom struggle?
It was the 1950s new approach about African Americans and was led with marches and boycotts in the south- black pride
300
What does AAV stand for?
African American Vernacular
300
What do most middle class and professional African Americans speak?
LWC (Language of Wider Communication)
400
What are the black codes (slave codes)
Laws that were designed to restrict and control the movements of the enslaved population
400
What is code-switching?
When a person can switch between dialects
400
What percent of the African American community uses one or more aspects of Ebonics some of the time?
90 percent of the African American Community
500
Ebonics was coined by a group of African American scholars in what year?
1973
500
What is ebonics?
A set of communication patterns and practice resulting from Africans appropriation and transformation of a foreign tongue during the African Holocaust.