query re: work on representations of Ebonics in TV

[Ellen L. Contini-Morava]

John R. Rickford and Russell J. Rickford's book Spoken Soul:  the Story of
Black English, has some discussion of media representations, though I
don't recall off the top of my head whether TV sitcoms are included.  I
was going to also recommend a good website for further resources, then
realized that it's actually yours so you would already know about it.  But
for others who don't:

http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~patrickp/links.html#AAVE

Ellen

On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Patrick, Peter L wrote:

>
> I received a query on the topic above, whcih I reproduce below,
> partly to suggest the level of interest of the person who asked me.
>
> I am also interested myself, however. It stands to reason that there
> must be such work out there somewhere, eg under cultural studies etc.,
> but whether there's any by linguists I don't know. I can't think of any offhand.
> It strikes me as a good way to get students thinking both about structural
> issues and about matters of representation, authenticity and identity,
> and relating them to modern historical changes in attitudes.
>
> Anybody know of any works? (I will pass them on to the inquirer too)
> thanks,
> 	-peter-
>
> I am currently taking a Linquistics class and part of our class project is
> an intensive research paper on Language. We can use any form of Language
> we wish for our research so I have chosen the topic of Ebonics.
> I just don't want to study Ebonics as a Language but Ebonics as a culture
> which it really is. So I was going to link the Ebonic language to the Tv Sitcom Show
> Sanford and Son. I wanted to show how Ebonics has been used in main stream
> television programs and how it continues to be used today. I was wondering if
> there is a link between Sanford and Son and the Social Linguistics within the show.
>
>
> Peter L Patrick
> Dept of Language and Linguistics
> University of Essex
> patrickp at essex.ac.uk
>
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