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African American Evaluations of Black English and Standard American English

Ball State University

Beverly J. Vandiver

Pennsylvania State University

Maria L. Becker

Belinda G. Overstreet

Linda E. Temple

Kelly L. Hagan

Emily P. Mandelbaum

Ball State University

AfricanAmerican undergraduates evaluated two language guises: BlackEnglish and Standard American English. The speaker in these guises described activities in a weekend (informal) and in a business (formal) setting. Based on their scores on the African Self-Consciousness Scale, 55 respondents were categorized as having either a low or high commitment to an African American identity. Results showed that persons without a committed Black identity evaluated Black English as lower on status than those with a committed Black identity. Black English was not perceived as reflecting higher social solidarity.

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