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AAVE

Meaning of "AAVE" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF AAVE

AAVE


WHAT DOES AAVE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

African American Vernacular English

African American Vernacular English —also called African American English; less precisely Black English, Black Vernacular, Black English Vernacular, or Black Vernacular English —is a variety of American English, most commonly spoken by urban working-class and largely bi-dialectal middle-class African Americans. Non-linguists sometimes call it Ebonics. It shares parts of its grammar and phonology with Southern American English, which is spoken by many people in the United States. Several creolists, including William Stewart, John Dillard, and John Rickford, argue that AAVE shares so many characteristics with African creole dialects spoken in much of the world that AAVE itself is a creole, while others maintain that there are no significant parallels. As with all linguistic forms, its usage is influenced by age, status, topic, and setting. There are many literary uses of this variety of English, particularly in African-American literature.

Definition of AAVE in the English dictionary

The definition of AAVE in the dictionary is African-American Vernacular English.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE AAVE

AAP · AAR · Aarau · aardvark · aardwolf · aardwolves · Aargau · aargh · Aarhus · AARNet · Aaron · Aaron´s beard · Aaron´s rod · Aaronic · AARP · aarti · aasvogel · AAU · AAUP · Ab

WORDS THAT END LIKE AAVE

CPVE

Synonyms and antonyms of AAVE in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «AAVE» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF AAVE

Find out the translation of AAVE to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of AAVE from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «AAVE» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

AAVE
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

AAVE
570 millions of speakers
en

English

AAVE
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

aave
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

AAVE
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

AAVE
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

AAVE
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

AAUP
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

AAVE
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

AAUP
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

AAVE
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

AAVE
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

AAVE
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

AAUP
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

AAVE
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

AAUP
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

एएयूपी
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

AAUP
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

AAVE
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

AAVE
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

AAVE
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

AAVE
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

AAVE
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Aave
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

AAVE
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

agjs
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of AAVE

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «AAVE»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of AAVE
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about AAVE

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AAVE»

Discover the use of AAVE in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to AAVE and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
African American Vernacular English: Features, Evolution, ...
In response to the flood of interest in African American Vernacular English (AAVE) following the recent controversy over "Ebonics," this book brings together sixteen essays on the subject by a leading expert in the field, one who has been ...
John R. Rickford, 1999
2
Encyclopedia of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education
For AAVE to attain any kind of prestige or independent status, there would have toTSe widespread public support. This would seem to run against the tide of public opinion in the United States which still tends to favor linguistic assimilation to ...
Colin Baker, Sylvia Prys Jones, 1998
3
Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World
Of the 36 million African-Americans in the United States (13% of the population), a large but unknown proportion speaks AAVE. The distribution and functions of AAE are generally obscured by stigmatization and misrepresentations, principally : ...
‎2010
4
Language Disorders from Infancy Through Adolescence: ...
BOX 5-1 Some Differences between AAVE and SAE—cont'd Negation 1. Double- and triple-negative markers may be used in AAVE (“Nobody didn't never write to me”), but not in SAE (“Nobody ever wrote to me”). 2. Ain't is used as a negative ...
Rhea Paul, 2007
5
African-American English: Structure, History and Use
While contributors to this book extend the discussion of topics like AAVE's morphosyntax and history, which have been the foci of AAVE research for decades, they also broach others such as AAVE's phonology, lexicon, and pragmatics, which ...
Guy Bailey, John Baugh, Salikoko S. Mufwene, 2013
6
The Mid-Atlantic Region
In other words, a person does not have to be black to speak AAVE — there are nonblacks who speak it as a native variety — and not all black people speak AAVE. Also, it is only used in certain situations, not all the time, since most of its ...
Robert P. Marzec, 2004
7
The Companion to Southern Literature: Themes, Genres, ...
AFRICAN AMERICAN VERNACULAR ENGLISH (AAVE) Known also by a succession of names from Black English to Black Vernacular English, Afro- American English, and Ebonics, African American Vernacular English (AAVE) refers ...
Joseph M. Flora, Lucinda Hardwick MacKethan, Todd W. Taylor, 2002
8
A Handbook of Varieties of English: Morphology and syntax
It is this early AAVE that has evolved to the present AAVE. A second view, the English-origins position, held by Poplack (2000) and others, argues that when these languages came into contact, the slaves learned more or less the English ...
Edgar Werner Schneider, Bernd Kortmann, 2004
9
Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora: Origins, Experiences, ...
variety of American English. Since then, such linguists as Guy Bailey, John Baugh, Salikoko Mufwene, Geneva Smitherman, John Rickford, and Walt Wolfram have generally focused on four central questions: (1) Is AAVE a dialect, or is it just ...
Carole Boyce Davies, 2008
10
Sociocultural and Historical Contexts of African American ...
Some phonological features of AAVE and/or Southern White vernaculars 38. Fronting of the onset in /au/ 39. Lowering/retraction of. Features Examples Scope 1. Final C-cluster reduction (loss of 2nd C) 2. Unstressed syl. del. (init. & med. syls.) ...
Sonja L. Lanehart, 2001

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «AAVE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term AAVE is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Summer reading: keeping pace with social movement
... Moten intermingles African American Vernacular English and academic diction, challenging both racist views of the “respectability” of AAVE ... «Daily Californian, Jun 15»
2
La Machine De Rêve release new single and video 'Steam Train'
... “Steam Train” by La Machine De Rêve – http://www.amazon.com/Steam-Train-Single-Machine-R%C3%AAve/dp/B00YOIJMYO/ Official video ... «Music Talkers, Jun 15»
3
Do You Sound Like A Black Woman? The Way You Speak Is Having …
Contrast this with the persistent, negative connotation associated with African American Vernacular English (AAVE). During my freshman year ... «Madame Noire, Jun 15»
4
CoastLine: African American English may be a Legit Language, But …
... edition of CoastLine – along with the implications for people who do speak what is now called African American Vernacular English or AAVE. «WHQR, Jun 15»
5
A letter in response to Alisha Aitken-Radburn's failure to deliver on …
Historically, Black Vernacular (AAVE or Ebonics) is derived from the African-American community exercising agency and creating their own ... «Honi Soit, Jun 15»
6
Jennifer Morales writes about Milwaukee's characters
And there are several black characters who speak different Milwaukee variations on African American Vernacular English (AAVE). There are ... «Wisconsin Gazette, Jun 15»
7
How to Care for Cast Iron
61hi5 featuring That's My Kid, Aave, Luella and Some Fella, & More. Mercy Lounge. 8:00 pm. Bluebird On the Mountain. Dyer Observatory. «Fall River Herald News, Jun 15»
8
TV Recap: Black-ish, 1.20 "Switch Hitting"
Also unquestioned: why Black culture (the AAVE Jay speaks, for example) is cool and imitated in this country, but Black people aren't, another ... «The Horn, Apr 15»
9
Kim Kardashian West Says Family Will Be Watching Bruce Jenner's …
61hi5 featuring That's My Kid, Aave, Luella and Some Fella, & More. Mercy Lounge. 9:00 pm. COMPLEX SATURDAYS - Every Saturday - Free ... «Milford Daily News, Apr 15»
10
Show cause notice: When Prashant Bhushan levelled serious …
"It's remarkable and ironic that you (Pankaj Gupta) along with Ashish Khetan and Dinesh Vaghela aave sent this notice to us, styling yourself as ... «Oneindia, Apr 15»
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