Talking Black in America, Part II: Mini-Series and Public Education

该项目将制作一个关于非裔美国人语言的四集迷你系列片，供电视广播以及正式和非正式的公共教育发行。这个迷你系列解决了与美国英语历史上最突出，最有争议和最被误解的方言-非洲裔美国人语言有关的社会，文化和教育问题。方言偏见、语言貌相和基于语言的歧视继续“被普遍接受，被广泛认为是适当的，因此必须将其视为歧视的最后后门。大门仍然敞开着”（Lippi-Green 2012：73）。通过展示语言在非裔美国人生活中的历史、发展、多样性和象征作用，这部纪录片系列有助于抵消关于非裔美国人语言的持续错误信息和误解。该系列以一小时的纪录片《在美国谈论黑人：非洲裔美国人语言的故事》为基础，包括以下几集：1）非洲裔美国人语言的历史和当代发展; 2）非洲裔美国人基于地区、年龄、地位、教育和风格的语言使用多样性; 3）语言在表达性表现中的使用，包括说教、喜剧、音乐、嘻哈、口语和其他表达性体裁; 4）语言差异在教育成就中的作用。该系列的一个网站将包括各种教育资源，包括流媒体，话语章节，其中包含剧集的综合小插曲，额外的评论和背景，活动，以及每集的讨论问题，以及进一步的在线教育材料。这部纪录片和伴随的活动是教育公众了解美国社会语言多样性的一个重要里程碑。在美国英语的历史上，没有一种方言比非洲裔美国人的语言更突出、更有争议、更容易被误解，而方言偏见、语言特征分析和语言歧视仍然强烈地影响着这一变体的使用者。通过展示语言在非裔美国人生活中的历史、发展、多样性和象征性作用，这部纪录片系列将有助于抵消关于非裔美国人语言的持续错误信息。这一系列和附带的在线材料提供了一个重要的里程碑，在努力教育公众的语言多样性，可以帮助减少美国社会的语言歧视。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得支持的评估使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。

This project will produce a four-part mini-series on African American Language (AAL) designed for television broadcast as well as for formal and informal public educational distribution. This mini-series addresses the social, cultural, and educational issues related to the most prominent, the most controversial, and the most misunderstood dialect in the history of American English--African American Language. Dialect prejudice, linguistic profiling, and language-based discrimination continue to be "so commonly accepted, so widely perceived as appropriate, that it must be seen as the last back door to discrimination. And the door is still wide open" (Lippi-Green 2012:73). By presenting the history, development, diversity, and symbolic role of language in the lives of African Americans, this documentary series helps to counteract the persistent misinformation and misinterpretation circulated about the language of African Americans. The series builds on the popular public reception to the one-hour documentary, Talking Black in America: The Story of African American Language, and includes the following episodes: 1) the historical and contemporary development of African American Language; 2) the diversity of language use among African Americans based on region, age, status, education, and style; 3) the use of language in expressive performance, including preaching, comedy, music, hip hop, spoken word, and other expressive genres; and 4) the role of language differences in educational achievement. A website accompanying the series will include a variety of educational resources, including streaming, discursive chapters with integrated vignettes from the episodes, additional commentary and background, activities, and discussion questions for each episode, with further online materials for education. The documentary and accompanying activities constitute an important milestone in the effort to educate the public about language diversity in American society. No dialect in the history of American English has been more prominent, more controversial, and more misunderstood than African American Language, and dialect prejudice, linguistic profiling, and language discrimination still intensely affect speakers of this variety. By presenting the history, development, diversity, and symbolic role of language in the lives of African Americans, this documentary series will help to counteract the persistent misinformation circulated about African American Language. This series and the accompanying online materials offer an important milestone in the effort to educate the public about language diversity that can help to reduce linguistic discrimination in American society.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.