| Title: | Characteristics of Black English Vernacular in the novel The Color Purple |
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| Authors: | ID Tojnko, Patricija (Author)
ID Plemenitaš, Katja (Mentor) More about this mentor...  |
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| Files: |  UNI_Tojnko_Patricija_2012.pdf (1,05 MB)
MD5: 64A70ED6C137CB431C07C5949149377E
PID: 20.500.12556/dkum/5a327d9b-a330-4421-bc42-be73936876a2
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| Language: | English |
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| Work type: | Undergraduate thesis |
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| Typology: | 2.11 - Undergraduate Thesis |
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| Organization: | FF - Faculty of Arts
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| Abstract: | The diploma paper Characteristics of Black English Vernacular in the novel The Color Purple deals with Black English Vernacular. The main aims are to present the development of Black English and Black English Vernacular through time, to present and get to know the famous black writers through history, to get to know where Black English Vernacular stands in contemporary literature, to compare Black English Vernacular to Standard English, and to analyse the use of Black English Vernacular in Alice Walker’s masterpiece The Color Purple. African Americans had to fight hard to keep their language alive; their language was a means to communicate and to keep their spirits high through different trials. Different prejudices existed connected to the Black English Vernacular and speaking it automatically meant that the speaker was looked upon as someone illiterate and inferior. But black people were strong and proud of their language and with their infinite effort they succeeded to preserve something that would become; one of the most interesting parts of the English language. The first part of the diploma paper is theoretical; in the second part we analysed and compared Black English Vernacular to Standard American English. We applied the analysis to Celie’s and Nettie’s emotions and later compared the ways they spoke - according to their different life periods. |
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| Keywords: | Black English, Black English Vernacular, the novel The Color Purple, linguistic style. |
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| Place of publishing: | Maribor |
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| Publisher: | [P. Tojnko] |
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| Year of publishing: | 2012 |
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| PID: | 20.500.12556/DKUM-22676 |
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| UDC: | 821ANG(73)(043.2) |
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| COBISS.SI-ID: | 19181832 |
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| NUK URN: | URN:SI:UM:DK:TCP2W1SC |
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| Publication date in DKUM: | 12.06.2012 |
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| Categories: | FF
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