Attitudes toward African-American vernacular English: A US export to Japan?

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 443-456

  Cargile, Aaron Castelan ^a   Takai, Jiro ^b   Rodríguez, José I ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

African American Vernacular English; Japanese cultural groups; Language attitudes; Speaker evaluations

Indexed keywords

EID: 39749113482     PISSN: 01434632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2167/jmmd472.1     Document Type: Article

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