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Middle-Class African American English African American English (AAE) is a major area of research in linguistics, but until now, work has primarily been focused on AAE as it is spoken amongsttheworkingclasses.Fromitshistoricaldevelopmenttoitscontem- porarycontext,thisisthefirstfull-lengthoverviewoftheuseandevaluation of AAE by middle-class speakers, giving voice to this relatively neglected segmentoftheAfricanAmericanspeechcommunity.Weldonoffersaunique first-person account of middle-class AAE, and highlights distinguishing elementssuchascodeswitching,camouflagedfeatureusage,StandardAAE, and talking/sounding “Black” versus “Proper.” Readers can hear authentic excerptsandaudiopromptsofthelanguagedescribedthroughawiderange ofaudiofiles,whichcanbeaccesseddirectlyfromthebook’spagesusingQR technologyorthroughthebook’sonlineResourceTab.Engagingandaccess- ible,itwillhelpstudentsandresearchersgainabroaderunderstandingofboth theAfricanAmericanspeechcommunityandtheAAEcontinuum. tracey l. weldon is a sociolinguist, specializing in African American LanguagevarietiesattheUniversityofSouthCarolina.SheisanAssociate Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences, Associate Producer of the docu- mentary Talking Black in America, and chair of the LSA Committee on EthnicDiversityinLinguistics. Middle-Class African American English Tracey L. Weldon UniversityofSouthCarolina UniversityPrintingHouse,CambridgeCB28BS,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,20thFloor,NewYork,NY10006,USA 477WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,VIC3207,Australia 314–321,3rdFloor,Plot3,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre, NewDelhi–110025,India 79AnsonRoad,#06–04/06,Singapore079906 CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9780521895316 DOI:10.1017/9781139021531 ©TraceyL.Weldon2021 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2021 AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Names:Weldon,TraceyL.,author. Title:Middle-classAfricanAmericanEnglish/TraceyL.Weldon. Description:NewYork:CambridgeUniversityPress,2021.|Includes bibliographicalreferencesandindex. Identifiers:LCCN2020027585(print)|LCCN2020027586(ebook)| ISBN9780521895316(hardback)|ISBN9780521719667(paperback)| ISBN9781139021531(epub) Subjects:LCSH:BlackEnglish–Phonology.|AfricanAmericans–Languages.| MiddleclassAfricanAmericans.|Englishlanguage–Dialects–UnitedStates.| Sociolinguistics–UnitedStates. Classification:LCCPE3102.N42W452021(print)|LCCPE3102.N42(ebook)| DDC427/.97308996073–dc23 LCrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2020027585 LCebookrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2020027586 ISBN978-0-521-89531-6Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracy ofURLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. For my children Christian and Rupert And in memory of my dad Paul Isaiah Weldon 1933–2019 Lovetakesoffthemasksthatwefearwecannotlivewithoutandknowwe cannotlivewithin —JamesBaldwin,TheFireNextTime
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