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English in South Africa: parallels with African American vernacular English
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 February 2002
Abstract
A comparison between Black English usage in South Africa and the United States
There has been a long tradition of resistance in South African politics, as there has been for African-Americans in the United States. The historical links between African Americans and their counterparts on the African continent prompt one to draw a comparison between the groups in terms of linguistic and social status. This comparison demonstrates that Black South African English (BSAfE) is a distinctive form with its own stable conventions, as representative in its own context as African American Vernacular English (AAVE) is in the United States.
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