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Publication details [#44359]

Takai, Jiro, José I. Rodríguez and Aaron Castelán Cargile. 2006. Attitudes Toward African–American Vernacular English: A US Export to Japan? Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 27 (6) : 443–456.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

crosscultural context | evaluation | language attitude | language variety

Language as a subject

English, African American Vernacular

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This paper investigates Japanese college students' attitudes towards African–American vernacular English (AAVE). The evaluations of AAVE in Japan appear to be as good as indistinguishable from the overall US American pattern of AAVE evaluations.