Week 1: Beyond the Stereotypes of African American English
Monday, September 28 and Wednesday, September 30
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Green, "Introduction," pp. 1-8
ERes:
Walters 1996, "Contesting Representations of African American Language"
286:
Wolfram 2007, "Sociolinguistic Folklore in the Study of African American English"
Wednesday: Reading response 1 due
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Week 2: The Lexicon of AAVE
Monday, October 5 and Wednesday, October 7
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Green 1, "Lexicons and Meaning"
ERes: Childs and Mallinson 2006, "The Significance of Lexical Items in the Construction of Ethnolinguistic Identity"
286:
Spears 1998, "African-American Language Use: Ideology and So-Called Obscenity"
Video: "The N Word"
Monday: Reading response 2 due
Wednesday: HW 1 due: What Is African American English?
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Week 3: Aspect and the Verbal System
Monday, October 12 and Wednesday, October 14
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Green 2, "Syntax Part 1: Verbal Markers in AAVE"
ERes: Baugh 1984, "Steady: Progressive Aspect in Black Vernacular English"
286:
Edwards 2001, "Aspectual d<schwa>n in African American Vernacular English in Detroit"
Monday: Reading response 3 due
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Week 4: Syntax and Morphosyntax
Monday, October 19 and Wednesday, October 21
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Green 3, "Syntax Part 2: Syntactic and Morphosyntactic Properties in AAE"
ERes: Rickford and Théberge Rafal 1996, "Preterite had + V-ed in the Narratives of African American Preadolescents"
286:
Collins, Moody, and Postal 2008, "An AAE Camouflage Construction"
Monday: Reading response 4 due
Wednesday: HW 2 due: African American Slang
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Week 5: Phonology
Monday, October 26 and Wednesday, October 28
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Green 4, "Phonology of AAE"
ERes: Anderson 2002, "Dialect Leveling and /ai/ Monophthongization among African American Detroiters"
286: Hinton and Pollock 2000, "Regional Variations in the Phonological Characteristics of African American Vernacular English"
Video: "Linguistic Profiling" Monday: Reading response 5 due |
Week 6: Debating the Origins and Development of AAVE
Monday, November 2 and Wednesday, November
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Green, Introduction, pp. 8-11
ERes: Rickford 1998, "The Creole Origins of African-American Vernacular English: Evidence from Copula Absence"
286:
Rickford 2006, "Against Consensus: Challenging the New Anglicists' Contentions Concerning the Development of AAVE"
Video: "Family Across the Sea"
Monday: Reading response 6 due
Wednesday: HW 3 due: African American English Structure
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Week 7: Discourse, Interaction, and Culture
Monday, November 9
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Green 5, "Speech Events and Rules of Interaction in AAE"
ERes: Fuller 1993, "Hearing between the Lines: Style Switching in a Courtroom Setting"
286: Wharry 2003, "Amen and Hallelujah Preaching"
Monday: Reading response 7 due
WEDNESDAY: NO CLASS (VETERAN'S DAY)
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Week 8: Hip Hop Language and Culture
Monday, November 16 and Wednesday, November 18
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ERes: Alim 2004, "Hip Hop Nation Language"
ERes: Pennycook 2007, "Language, Localization, and the Real: Hip-Hop and the Global Spread of Authenticity"
286: Cutler 2003, "Keepin' It Real: White Hip-Hoppers' Discourses of Language, Race, and Authenticity"
Video: "Beef"
Monday: Reading response 8 due
Wednesday: HW 4 due: African American Discourse Genres
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Week 9: Representing African American Language in American Culture
Monday, November 23
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Green 7, "AAE in the Media"
ERes: Rahman 2007, "Language of Survival in African American Narrative Comedy"
286:
Ronkin & Karn 1999, "Mock Ebonics: Linguistic Racism in Parodies of Ebonics on the Internet"
Monday: Reading response 9 due
WEDNESDAY: NO CLASS (THANKSGIVING EVE)
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Week 10:
Education and Ideology
Monday, November 30
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Green 8, "Approaches, Attitudes, and Education"
ERes: Rickford 1999, "Using the Vernacular to Teach the Standard"
286: Fordham 1999, "Dissin' 'the Standard': Ebonics as Guerrilla Warfare at Capital High"
Video: American English Mastery Program
Monday: Reading response 10 due
Wednesday: HW 5 due: AAVE in Hip Hop and the Media
Wednesday: All extra credit assignments due
286: Student presentations Thursday, December 10; final paper due Friday, December 11 by 5:00 p.m. via email (Word .doc format only)
Final exam guidelines distributed in lecture Monday, November 30
Final exam: Friday, December 11, 12-3 p.m., South Hall 1439
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