Thursday, April 28, 2011

AAVE in television

AS I sat and thought about what I could talk about for my last blog post, the only thing that kept through my head was AAVE language, and how so many people try to speak this dialect when in African American culture it is second nature.  In television ther are even mocking the AAVE dialect.  One of the shows that it is constantly mocked is the Boondocks.  This show is mocked from the black community/culture and they constantly use the AAVE dialect.  They also use lannguage of the african american culture, suck as the N word.  Posted is a clip of a boondocks scene so that more can understand.  

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Everybody Speaks a Dialect

In Chaika chapter seven, this chapter speaks on how everyone has a certain dialect that they speak.  Not all are the same but everyone is categorized into one.  As I was going through this chapter this one particular person kept coming across my mind becasue I cant figure out the dialect that they speak.  My mom was on a phone interview and the person that she was interviewing was asian.  We could tell she was because of her asian accent, but this lady also had a southern accent.  From this it was very hard to understand what she was saying and at the same time it was very shocking to hear becasue I had never heard anyone with an asian accent but southern as well.  Becauses of her southern accent, that would be categorized under AAVE but combing them both gives a new type. 
My question would be how is this type of dialect.language categorized?