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| She argues that Odum's way of writing dialect does closely reproduce the phonology of Black Vernacular English (Sanders's term) and names specific rhetorical devices of speakers of BVE, such as signifying (which Gordon called "joreein'"), boasting, and rhyme, which are abundant in Odum's texts. In a discussion of Oreo's grandmother's southern speech, Ross embraces black vernacular English as an expressive medium and a variety of language with its own distinction, subtlety, and complexity, while also refusing to privilege it as a badge of African American authenticity: Conspicuously absent in Annie Eliza's speech is the usual reduction in Southern black vernacular English of -ing suffixes, as in singing to singin, and only infrequent uses of the uninflected form of the verb to be in a position in which a Standard English speaker would use an inflected form. |
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