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Publication details [#30524]

Sweetland, Julie. 2002. Unexpected but authentic use of an ethnically-marked dialect. Journal of Sociolinguistics 6 (4) : 514–536.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Blackwell Publishers
ISBN
1360-6441

Annotation

This paper discusses white youth's use of African American Vernacular English, arguing that the interaction of ideologies of race, class, localness and language may even allow them to be considered an ingroup member despite their biographical race. This suggests a tension between academic linguistic theory and actual speaker practice in assigning authenticity to individuals.