“You know she didn’t have no country”

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Nicholas Kontovas
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Abstract

This study focuses on switches into and out of African American English among contestants of the television series RuPaul’s Drag Race. Following Barrett (1995), I note that Black contestants who are comfortable in White Middle-Class American English tend to use it as their primary dialect, switching to AAE in order to develop rapport. I suggest that non-Black performers switch into AAE either in order to mitigate the effects of comments which might otherwise be interpreted as rude, or to reinforce strength in moments of emotional self-disclosure, and that this is possibly reflective of an interpretation on the part of the speaker that forwardness and strength constitute a normal element – ‘sass’ – of Black women’s speech. Finally, I explore the possible social impact of this phenomenon from the perspective of two common themes in the popular discourse on race: one centered on cultural appropriation, the other on the perception of Black Women’s Language.
“你知道她不是没有国家”
本研究的重点是在电视连续剧《保罗的加速赛车》(RuPaul’s Drag Race)的参赛者中,非裔美国人英语的转换。根据巴雷特(1995)的研究,我注意到那些对白人中产阶级美国英语感到满意的黑人选手倾向于将其作为他们的主要方言,为了建立融洽的关系而改用AAE。我建议非黑人表演者转换成AAE,要么是为了减轻评论的影响,否则可能会被解释为粗鲁,要么是为了在情感自我表露的时刻加强力量,这可能反映了演讲者的一种解释,即直率和力量构成了黑人女性演讲的正常元素——“sass”。最后,我从流行种族话语中的两个共同主题:一个以文化挪用为中心,另一个以黑人女性语言的感知为中心,探讨了这一现象可能产生的社会影响。
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Journal of Language and Sexuality
Journal of Language and Sexuality Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics
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