A Black Classroom Culture: Student Code-switching in an Inner City Secondary School

dc.contributor.advisorKa, Omar
dc.contributor.authorWarner, Edward Humphrey
dc.contributor.departmentModern Languages, Linguistics & Intercultural Communication
dc.contributor.programIntercultural Communication Language
dc.date.accessioned2015-10-14T03:12:56Z
dc.date.available2015-10-14T03:12:56Z
dc.date.issued2008-02-05
dc.description.abstractThis project is a study of the speech of African American students within the High School classroom and their verbal communication before, during, and after class. The overall goal is to observe and study their varying use of Standard American English (SAE) and African American Vernacular English (AAVE) with a focus on the code-switching practices among these students. Through the analysis of salient parts of classroom communication, an examination of African American speech dynamics when African American students use both varieties (SAE and AAVE) is performed, extrapolating to which factors influence the use of each variety. Using the tenets of bi-dialectalism and code-switching as they exist in a speech community, this research aims to draw conclusions on the culture of this phenomenon. An inner city secondary school in Baltimore, Maryland, is used as the research site for this study.
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dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/M2WQ1B
dc.identifier.other1104
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/1036
dc.languageen
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dc.subjectCulture, dialect, high school
dc.subjectLanguage, Linguistics (0290)
dc.subjectLanguage, Modern (0291)
dc.titleA Black Classroom Culture: Student Code-switching in an Inner City Secondary School
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