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

这个项目将制作一个关于非洲裔美国人语言的四集迷你系列节目，供电视广播以及正式和非正式的公共教育分发。这部迷你剧讲述了与美国英语历史上最突出、最具争议、最被误解的方言——非裔美国人语言有关的社会、文化和教育问题。方言偏见、语言侧写和基于语言的歧视仍然“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，这部系列纪录片有助于消除人们对非裔美国人语言的长期误解和误解。该系列以一小时纪录片《在美国说黑人话：非裔美国人语言的故事》为基础，包括以下几集：1)非裔美国人语言的历史和当代发展；2)非裔美国人语言使用的多样性，基于地域、年龄、地位、教育和风格；3)语言在表现性表演中的运用，包括说教、喜剧、音乐、嘻哈、口语等表现体裁；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、带有集锦的论述章节、额外的评论和背景、活动和每集的讨论问题，以及进一步的在线教育材料。这部纪录片和相关活动是向公众宣传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，没有哪一种方言比非洲裔美国人的语言更突出、更有争议、更被误解，方言偏见、语言侧写和语言歧视仍然强烈地影响着这种方言的使用者。通过展示语言在非裔美国人生活中的历史、发展、多样性和象征作用，本系列纪录片将有助于消除一直流传的关于非裔美国人语言的错误信息。这个系列和相关的在线材料是教育公众语言多样性的一个重要里程碑，这有助于减少美国社会的语言歧视。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

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.