African American Vernacular English

African American Vernacular English has been developing and evolving over generations and generations. The language is a mixture of English language with its own semantic, syntactic, morphological, phonological and lexical rules. It is commonly spoken by the urban working class and middle-class African Americans, and is often identified as an unsophisticated form of dialect despite having similar elements to other languages such as it’s pronunciation, grammatical structure and vocabulary. Although this language is now used commonly and freely, and has adopted an almost comedic profile, it has a deeper, contextual meaning, associated with the time of black inequality and slave trading. Today we will be investigating and comparing two texts from