Vernacular compositions seem to have been at first produced for the amusement, or in the case of religious poetry, for the edification, of that part of lay society which had leisure and lands, and reckoned intellectual pastime among the good things of life.

The loss of syllable-final r in North America is confined mostly to the accents of eastern New England, New York City and surrounding areas and the coastal portions of the South, and African American Vernacular English.

This is a feature of African American Vernacular English but is also used by a variety of English speakers in informal contexts.

Vernacular architecture works slightly differently and is listed separately.

The anthem is written completely in Vernacular Chinese, while the " National Anthem of the Republic of China " is written in Classical Chinese.

This is only partly because it was written in the Vernacular ( Italian ) rather than Latin, a practice which had become increasingly popular since the publication of Dante's Divine Comedy and other works of Renaissance literature.

: 4. it " is the antonym of black English and is considered to be a language other than English " ( and thus a rejection of the notion of " African American Vernacular English " but nevertheless a term for what others term AAVE, viewed as an independent language and not a mere ethnolect ).

African American Vernacular English ( AAVE )— recently called African American Language ( AAL ) also called African American English ; less precisely Black English, Black Vernacular, Black English Vernacular ( BEV ), or Black Vernacular English ( BVE )— is an African American variety ( dialect, ethnolect and sociolect ) of American English.

It is an outstanding example of a 18th / 19th century burgh ' the jewel in the crown of Scottish Vernacular Architecture '.

In Italian American Vernacular English, the term " mamalook " is often used to refer to someone who does something stupid.

In African American Vernacular English ( AAVE ), it is often used to describe a magic spell or potion, but it may also be used as an adjective for a practitioner.

Standard English lacks negative concord, but it was normal in Old English and Middle English, and some modern dialects do have it ( e. g. African American Vernacular English and Cockney ), although its usage in English is often stigmatized.

Both in popular usage and in sociolinguistic scholarship, the name code-switching is sometimes used to refer to switching among dialects, styles or registers, such as that practiced by speakers of African American Vernacular English as they move from less formal to more formal settings.

Komunyakaa is a recipient of the 1994 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, for Neon Vernacular and the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

In the lexicons of American English and African American Vernacular English, the term is sometimes used ( 1 ) by older men addressing younger men, implying the speaker's seniority ; and ( 2 ) as one of endearment between young Black males and others who imitate hip hop culture, mainly in urban and inner city.

Vernacular literature is literature written in the vernacular — the speech of the " common people ".

This variety is a transplanted variety of African American Vernacular English.

An example of a vernacular dialect is African American Vernacular English.

The Wind Done Gone is the same story, but told from the viewpoint of Cynara, a mulatto slave on Scarlett's plantation and the daughter of Scarlett's father and Mammy ; the title is an African American Vernacular English sentence that might be rendered " The Wind Has Gone " in Standard American English.

The term hip is said to have originated in African American Vernacular English ( AAVE ) in the early 1900s, derived from the earlier form hep.

African American Vernacular English | AAVE-influenced non-rhotic pronunciations may be African American Vernacular English | found among African Americans throughout the country.

Note that the aspectual systems of certain dialects of English, such as African-American Vernacular English ( see for example habitual be ), and of creoles based on English vocabulary, such as Hawaiian Creole English, are quite different from those of standard English, and often distinguish aspect at the expense of tense.

Thus non-standard language varieties ( such as African American Vernacular English ) are considered to be natural while standard language varieties ( such as Standard American English ) which are more prescribed can be considered to be at least somewhat artificial or constructed.

Due to the county's proximity to Virginia, the Carolina coast, and the Appalachian foothills, a wide variety of Southern American English dialects can be heard, with Virginia Piedmont, Coastal Southern, South Midland, and African American Vernacular English the most common.

Vernacular Chinese soon came to be viewed as mainstream by most people.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, his studies of the linguistic features of African American Vernacular English ( AAVE ) were also influential: he argued that AAVE should not be stigmatized as substandard, but respected as a variety of English with its own grammatical rules.

In contrast to their generally high level of tolerance for the dialects of other English-speaking countries, speakers often express disdain for features of certain regional or ethnic dialects, such as Southern American English's use of y'all, Geordies ' use of " yous " as the second person plural personal pronoun, and non-standard forms of " to be " such as " The old dock bes under water most of the year " ( Newfoundland English ), or " That dock be under water every other week " ( African-American Vernacular English ).

She say, she go, she be like: Verbs of quotation over time in African American Vernacular English.

Entitled " So U Be Wantin ' to Take Dis Class ," it presented a mock catalogue of courses taught in African-American Vernacular English, but in highly stereotyped language, for instance " Da white man be evil an he tryin ' to keep da brotherman down.

This model worked well for Labov's purpose which was to show that African American Vernacular English could not be seen as structurally degenerate form of English, but rather as a well defined linguistic code with its own particular structure.

* Nigga, ( African American Vernacular English ) though it has been known to be used between black people as a term of endearment, there is a controversy associated with its usage as it is an eye dialect of a racial slur, and an ongoing debate as to whether or not there is any meaningful difference between the two terms.

In African American Vernacular, it may be omitted altogether ( e. g. fool becomes, cereal becomes ).

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Although they are uncommon in written English, double negatives are employed as a normal part of the grammar of Southern American English, African American Vernacular English, and most British regional dialects, particularly the East London and East Anglian dialects.

Liberian Kreyol language ( Vernacular Liberian English ), the most common variety, developed from Liberian Interior Pidgin English, the Liberian version of West African Pidgin English though it has been significantly influenced by Liberian Settler English.

Because Vernacular Chinese was the dialect in which most folklore was created, this movement brought to scholars ’ attention the influences that Vernacular Chinese folklore had had upon classical literature.

Vernacular regions, like most culture regions, generally lack sharp borders, and the inhabitants of any given area may claim residence in more than one such region.

Hu Shih, a pivotal figure of the first half of the twentieth century, wrote an influential and perceptive study of this literary tradition, entitled Báihuà Wénxuéshǐ ( A History of Vernacular Literature ).

Vernacular fiction covered a broader range of subject matter and was longer and more loosely structured than literary fiction.

Within the University's system, the College has the particularity of being constituted as a multi-and interdisciplinary one, wherein three great sections of knowledge converge: Humanities ( including Vernacular Spanish, its literary and linguistic components ), Social Sciences and Natural Sciences, and English as a second language, including its literary and linguistic components.

In 1848 he started the Gujarat Vernacular Society in Ahmedabad, which contributed to a literary renaissance in Gujarati.