Accent & Dialect Revision
Accent and dialect revision John McWhorter's "It wasn't 'verbal blackface'. AOC was code-switching" summary: Alexandria Cortez was said to have "sprinkled some elements of black English into her speech", verb "sprinkled" more gentle connotations and implying the use of the black English was not saturated throughout the speech. Was then accused of speaking in "an accent that she never uses" McWhorter says this is "ignorance" towards the idea of code-switching code-switching is common when alternating but is also done between two dialects of the same language Links to Gary Ives 2014 study where their was code switching in school students between their language, using it to communicate with other people who knew the dialect. similar to AOC code-switching as it is used when a certain group of people are conversing Milroy's 'Belfast' Study Main idea: Members of a speech community are connected to e...