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Attitudes toward African-American Vernacular English: A US Export to Japan?
- Source :
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Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development . 2006 27(6):443-456. - Publication Year :
- 2006
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Abstract
- To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to examine attitudes towards African-American vernacular English (AAVE) in a setting outside of the USA. Because foreign attitudes toward AAVE can serve as an indirect assessment of a society's racial prejudice, we decided to explore these attitudes in Japan: a country with an intriguing mix of ties that are both close (i.e. politically and economically) and distant (i.e. culturally) vis-a-vis the USA. Considering the ostensible similarities in racial beliefs widely held in both countries, we hypothesised that evaluations of AAVE in Japan would be comparable to those in the USA. We found that the evaluations expressed by a sample of Japanese college students were virtually indistinguishable from the overall pattern of AAVE evaluations made by US Americans and recommend additional research in order to better understand the nature of contemporary Japanese attitudes towards different varieties of English. (Contains 2 tables and 1 figure.)
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0143-4632
- Volume :
- 27
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- ERIC
- Journal :
- Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- EJ884747
- Document Type :
- Journal Articles<br />Reports - Research
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.2167/jmmd472.1