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African American Vernacular English is part and parcel of Black identity. Its distinctive linguistic features are denigrated — wrongly. (Shutterstock)

Shana Poplack, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa

After students at a California high school were recently told to “translate” Black English phrases into standard English, a community member at a school board hearing said: “The last thing they need — our children — is to be forced to attend class and to be mocked and bullied by students because of a lesson plan used to highlight African American Vernacular English.”

Few dialects of English have garnered so much negative attention. From the classroom to the courtroom, the place of African American Vernacular English is hotly debated. This is because people associate it with linguistic features now denounced as grammatically incorrect, like “double negatives” or verbs that don’t agree with their subjects. For example:

You might as well not tell them, ‘cause you ain’t getting no thanks for it. You might as well not tell them

Books by Shana Poplack

Language Contact and Grammatical Change
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Borrowing: Loanwords in the Speech Community and in the Grammar
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African American English in the Diaspora
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Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora: Volume 2: Diachronic Databases
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The English History of African American English
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Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora: Volume 1: Synchronic Databases
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The English History of African American English
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BORROWING P: Loanwords in the Speech Community and in the Grammar
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Instant Loans, Easy Conditions: The Productivity of Bilingual Borrowing
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Shana Poplack

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN

HONORARY CONFERRING

4 December at 2 pm 

TEXT OF THE INTRODUCTORY ADDRESS DELIVERED BY PROFESSOR VERA REGAN, UCD School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics on 4 December , on the occasion of the conferring of the Degree of Doctor of Literature, honoris causa on SHANA POPLACK

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President, Distinguished guests, Ladies and Gentlemen, 

Professor Shana Poplack is one of the most respected and influential linguists in the world today.  Hers is a truly extraordinary career; she has fundamentally altered linguistic theory and influenced attitudes to language and language policy. It is a great pleasure to honour her today with a Doctorate from University College Dublin.  We welcome also to Dublin, and to UCD, her son, Simon.

Shana Poplack investigates social and linguistic issues relating to bilingualism and minority varieties by going straight to the source: the everyday speech of ordinary people. In Ireland, we are especially well placed to appreciate the significance of this work, because language has always played a crucial role in Irish

Shana Poplack facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Shana Poplack CM FRSC
Nationality	Canadian
Occupation	Linguist, University Professor

Shana Poplack, CM FRSC is a Distinguished University Professor in the linguistics department of the University of Ottawa and three time holder of the Canada Research Chair (Tier I) in Linguistics. She is a leading proponent of variation theory, the approach to language science pioneered by William Labov. She has extended the methodology and theory of this field into bilingual speech patterns, the prescription-praxis dialectic in the co-evolution of standard and non-standard languages, and the comparative reconstruction of ancestral speech varieties, including African American vernacular English. She founded and directs the University of Ottawa Sociolinguistics Laboratory.

Biography

Born in Detroit, Michigan, and raised in New York City, she studied at Queens College and New York University, then lived in Paris for several years, studying with André Martinet at the Sorbonne before moving to the University of Pennsylvania, where she took her PhD () under William Labov's supervision. She joined the University of Ottawa in

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