Umi Kalsum Blog

Blog of an Indonesian student in New Delhi-India. Here, i just wanna be the way I am.

Saturday, April 28, 2007

Black English Vernacular As a Trend in Casual Chat


I choice this topic cause it's concerning to my subject that i study in one of lingustics branches, Aspect of Linguistics Behaviour. Black English Vernacular is spoken today in the Black population centers of the United States. According to William Labov in his book 'Language in the Inner City', ... Read more
the origins of BEV has relation with to the Creole continuum. The main things in BEV are such as the presence or absence of copula verb, the using of aint, the suffix -in' for the suffix -ing that has become phonemenon in adolescence style using that kinds of words in chatting.