ebonicsとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Blend of ebony +‎ phonics. Coined by scholars at the Cognitive and Language Development of the Black Child conference in 1973 led by Robert L. Williams and published in his book Ebonics: The True Language of Black Folks (1975). Considered outdated by some.

発音

• (General American) enPR: ē-bŏnʹĭks, ĭ-, ĕ-, IPA: /iˈbɑnɪks/, /ɪ̈-/, /ɛ-/
• 韻: -ɒnɪks
• ハイフネーション: Ebon‧ics

固有名詞

Ebonics (uncountable)

1. African-American Vernacular English (AAVE).
   • 1999, Geoffrey K. Pullum, “African American Vernacular English Is Not Standard English with Mistakes”, in Rebecca S. Wheeler, editor, The Workings of Language, →ISBN, page 40:

     Buried among the jargon of the announcement was a mention of a name for AAVE, suggested by a Black scholar in 1975 but never adopted by linguists: Ebonics. That word, concocted from ebony (a color term from the name of a dark-colored wood) and phonics (the name of a method for teaching reading), was destined to attach to the board as if chiseled into a block of granite and hung round their necks.

派生語

参考

Further reading

• ebonics (word) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Robert Williams (1975), Ebonics: The True Language of Black Folks, St. Louis: Institute of Black Studies, →OCLC
• “Ebonics”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

アナグラム

• bicones