African American Vernacular English and its Use in "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston

African American Vernacular English and its Use in "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston

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Pre-University Paper from the year 2014 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 15, language: English, abstract: African American English (AAVE) was first brought to the attention of linguists when in the 1960s, the government realised that African American (AA) children from urban ghettoes were worse in school than white pupils. To counteract this, it financed compensation programmes in which AA children should be taught Standard English (SE) "by means of structural drills and techniques adopted from foreign language learning". When this approach failed, linguists suggested that AA children only spoke a different dialect than white children and that consequently, it would be necessary to teach them SE as an additional dialect. However, this approach also failed because the failure of AA children in school seems to be a result of a cultural and social divide between AA and white American society, of which separate dialects of English are only a symptom. It will therefore be the aims of this paper to prove this belief wrong and prove that AAVE is indeed a rule-governed language, to investigate its origins and its use in Zora Neale Hurston's most famous novel, Their EyesWereWatching God.

Book information

ISBN: 9783668295674
Publisher: Bod Third Party Titles
Imprint: Grin Publishing
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Language: English
Number of pages: 24
Weight: 45g
Height: 210mm
Width: 148mm
Spine width: 2mm