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Black English in America Sociolinguistics in English Learning 《社会语言学习与英语学习》 ---- 谢徐萍 作者简介 谢徐萍：教授，硕士生导师，1983年毕业于南京师范大学外国语学院。现任南通大学外国语学院英语应用语言学研究所所长、研究生教研室主任。2003年赴澳大利亚昆士兰大学教育研究生院做高级访问学者。研究方向为语言学、教育心理学。主持江苏省教育厅课题及其他项目10余项。出版专著《英语读写文化（literacy）研究》，获江苏省第二节教育科学优秀成果三等奖。迄今在省级以上学术期刊发表学术论文50多篇，其中在国外MELTA、《外语界》、《学术论坛》等CSSCI核心期刊发表论文约20篇，论文多次被中国人民大学书报资料中心全文转载，并获得江苏省各类优秀教育教学论文和科学研究成果奖励多项。 What is standard English? Standard English is the English spoken on the major national TV networks: NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, etc. In a Midwestern Minnesota to Michigan dialect known as “American standard English” [ASE] Standard English is also known as the “language of wider communication” [LWC] because of its widespread use in the media. What is Black English? Many African Americans speak and use a form of the English that is somewhat different from standard English. Every language system contains rules. The rules of Black English are functional to those who use them. These rules are systematic and are applied over and over again in the exactly the same way. More recently, Black English has been referred to as English used in a “casual register.” background The American blacks are called Afro-American because their ancestors came from Africa. The first blacks were transported as slaves to Virginia of North America in 1619.Blacks from different areas of Africa speaking different languages needed badly a common language to communicate with them. Isolated words they learned were unable for them to form grammatical sentences, so that some pidgin mingled with their national characteristics was created. With increasingly more numbers of blacks transported from Africa to North America, more and more blacks spoke such an English-based pidgin. Characteristics of Black English Phonology and Morphology Word Usage Syntactic Characteristics 1.Phonology and Morphology though the numbers of phonemes of Black English are similar to those of Standard English, i.e. 46 or 48 phonemes altogether, Black English h