African American Vernacular English is a stigmatized dialect that is still ridiculed in education and the workplace. Its speakers are coherent and intelligent communicators, but remain disadvantaged.
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Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, University of Essex
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SARCHI Ocean Cultures and Heritage, Nelson Mandela University
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Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University
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Researcher, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
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Professor of Linguistics, University of Cape Town
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Professor of French, University of Alberta
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Postdoctoral Associate in Linguistics, University of the West Indies, Mona Campus
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Lecturer in linguistics, University of Essex
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Lecturer in Department of Language and Linguistics, University of Essex
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Professor of Anthropology of Migration, The University of Edinburgh
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Professor of English, Wayne State University
