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From: "Stahlke, Herbert F.W." <[log in to unmask]>
>What you are describing, however, is one narrow range of code switching,
>one in which a person uses code from outside the community's dialect and is
>penalized for doing so.
Herb - You are absolutely correct - the case of switching from AAVE to
"standard English" is limited to black students in general and inner-city
blacks in particular. However, this is such a serious issue that it needs
more attention, I think, than other cases of the phenomenon.
>Code switching, linguitsically and behaviorally, is a neutral phenomenon
>that we all participate in. When you throw in an "ain't", for emphasis, in
>class or in conversation with a colleague, that's code switching.
Absolutely! I love T. S. Eliot's line about putting on "a face to meet the
faces that we meet." This concept supports a lesson on acting and
performance - that, as Shakespeare says, "all the world's a stage." "Is you
is, or is you ain't? I be lovin' it!"
Nice points!
Geoff
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