Comparability of the black-white divide in the American speech community and the coloured-white divide in the Afrikaans speech community

dc.contributor.authorStell, Gerald
dc.date.accessioned2013-02-15T12:28:16Z
dc.date.available2013-02-15T12:28:16Z
dc.date.issued2012-03
dc.description.abstractThis article attempts to place the discussion on the relationship between African American and European American vernacular Englishes within a broader context involving another speech community split along ethnic lines, namely South Africa’s Afrikaans speakers. It specifically attempts to compare observations on the coloured-white linguistic divide within South Africa’s Afrikaans speech community with those made on the black-white linguistic divide in the United States, with the aim of shedding light on the correlation between ethnicity and language variation. The article first presents ethnicity and its social and linguistic correlates, drawing on literature on AA(V)E and South Africa. It then identifies the social and linguistic specificities of the American English and Afrikaans speech communities. After presenting a range of grammatical variables and their comparability across both speech communities, it provides an overview first of the various trends of grammatical variation from a mainly variationist perspective, then of Afrikaans-English code-switching, which is treated as a phenomenon that correlates with grammatical variation. It finally attempts to answer the general question whether the U.S. black-white linguistic divide in South Africa’s Afrikaans speech community can be referred to as complementary in the study of ethnicity and language variation.en_US
dc.description.librarianhb2013en_US
dc.description.librariangv2013
dc.description.urihttp://www.americanspeech.dukejournals.orgen_US
dc.identifier.citationStell, G 2012, 'Comparability of the black-white divide in the American speech community and the coloured-white divide in the Afrikaans speech community', American Speech, vol. 87, no.3, pp.294-335.en_US
dc.identifier.issn0003-1283(print)
dc.identifier.issn1527-2133 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.1215/00031283-1958336
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/21066
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherDuke University Pressen_US
dc.rightsCopyright 2012 by the American Dialect Societyen_US
dc.subjectAfrican Americansen_US
dc.subjectEuropean Americansen_US
dc.subjectColoured-white linguistic divideen_US
dc.subjectBlack-white linguistic divideen_US
dc.subjectSouth Africa’s Afrikaans speech communityen_US
dc.subject.lcshEnglish language -- United States -- Variationen
dc.subject.lcshAfrikaans language -- South Africa -- Variationen
dc.subject.lcshAnthropological linguisticsen
dc.titleComparability of the black-white divide in the American speech community and the coloured-white divide in the Afrikaans speech communityen_US
dc.typePostprint Articleen_US

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