Abstract—As black culture became a trend, African
American English, used by the majority of Afro-Americans, also
gained influence. In order to solve the prejudice and
misunderstanding toward language variant, this paper, taking
Afro-American music as corpus, sorts out the characteristics
and development history of AAE, introduces the concept of
language variant, and analyzes AAE from the perspective of
sociolinguistics. It is expected to arouse the attention to AAE
English variant in the field.
Index Terms—African American English, sociolinguistics,
language variant, music corpus.
Wang Tian is with Tianfu College, Southwest University of Finance and
Economics, China (e-mail: 2974024169@qq.com,
yangyuan@tfswufe.edu.cn, 820726linda@163.com ).
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Cite:Wang Tian, Yang Yuan, and Liu Jing, "A Study of African American English Variant Based on the Corpus of Afro-American Music," International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 126-132, 2022.