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Standard Language Ideology

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Essay1999

The Ebonics Controversy in My Backyard: A Sociolinguist's Experiences and Reflections

John R. Rickford

Recounts the 1996 Oakland school board resolution on Ebonics and the public backlash that followed from inside the controversy, arguing that the episode revealed how little of linguists' consensus that African American Vernacular English is a rule-governed system had reached the public, the press or policymakers.

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Paper1999

Mock Ebonics: Linguistic Racism in Parodies of Ebonics on the Internet

Maggie Ronkin & Helen E. Karn

Analyzes parody web pages that appeared after the Oakland Ebonics resolution and shows they draw on the same graphemic, grammatical and pragmatic strategies used to stereotype real dialects, turning linguistic parody into a vehicle for articulating an anti-Ebonics language ideology and outgroup racism.

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Reading on Standard Language Ideology

The Ebonics Controversy in My Backyard: A Sociolinguist's Experiences and Reflections

Mock Ebonics: Linguistic Racism in Parodies of Ebonics on the Internet

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