
ERIC Number: EJ597449
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1999
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Mock Ebonics: Linguistic Racism in Parodies of Ebonics on the Internet.
Ronkin, Maggie; Karn, Helen E.
Journal of Sociolinguistics, v3 n3 p360-80 Aug 1999
Analyzes outgroup linguistic racism in parodies of Ebonics that appeared on the Internet in the wake of the Oakland School Board resolution on improving the African-American students English skills. Shows that Mock Ebonics is a system of graphemic, phonetic, grammatical, semantic, and pragmatic strategies for representing an outgroup's belief in the inferiority of Ebonics and its users. (Author/VWL)
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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