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Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject American Studies - Linguistics, printed single-sided, grade: 2,7, University of Münster (Anglistik/Amerikanistik), course: Proseminar American English, language: English, abstract: This abstract shall give another piece of the puzzle to what is considered to be African-American Vernacular English. With scientific aid of well-known concepts by linguists such as Green in particular but also Wolfram, Schilling-Estes, Mufwene and Poplack we want to focus on specific grammatical features of AAVE and to what extend these can be recovered in the Hip-Hop subgenre of American West Coast Gangsta Rap. A small but significant text corpus of four representative songs (added to the appendix in the shape of lyrics) cover the source for a quantitative and qualitative evaluation. The given text shall give a short overview about the origin and different theories on AAVE first and will further on primarily adapt the characteristic linguistic features L. Green and Wolfram & Schilling-Estes worked out and apply them to our little song text corpus.

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Book category Books in English Biography & True Stories Biography: general

• Full title: African-American Vernacular English within American 'Gangsta Rap'
• Author: Jan Skordos
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 60
• EAN: 9783640840250
• ISBN: 3640840259
• ID: 01642154
• Publisher: Grin Publishing
• Weight: 91 g
• Dimensions: 210 × 148 × 4 mm
• Date of publishing: 23. February 2011

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