African American Vernacular English

His thesis is helpful as a guidance for this thesis. There are some findings which similar to the findings of this thesis. However, some items that are not existed in the Sadiq‟s thesis will be revealed in this thesis. 2. An undergraduate thesis entitled A Phonological Analysis of Black English i n 50 Cent‟s Song Lyrics in the Album „Curtis‟ by Estu Kuncoro Ismarono. The focus of this thesis is on the phonological features of Black English. The purpose of Ismarono‟s thesis is to know phonological processes of Black English that lead to different spelling. To achieve the purpose, Ismarono firstly analyzes the each word of the lyrics into phonological process. After that, Ismarono can derive the characteristics of Black English phonology. The difference between Ismarono‟s thesis and this thesis lie on the focus. We discuss the same topic, which is African American Vernacular English or Black English, but Ismarono only focusses on the phonological features. The other difference also lies on the form of the work. Ismarono uses 50 C ent‟s songs so he can hear how the singer produces the sound. Meanwhile, this thesis uses a novel, which is written. Therefore, this thesis needs to use orthography theory. The findings of I smarono‟s thesis are guidance to the phonological features. His findings of phonological process are quite complete. It helps this thesis to elaborate more about phonological processes happen to African American Vernacular English. 3. An undergraduate thesis entitled A Study of the Use of Black English in Afro-American Movies Entitled „Bad Boy‟ I and II, and „Rush Hour‟ I and II by Leonna Hertanu. In her thesis, she discusses three problems; the expressions of Black English, the linguistics features, and the social factors. The linguistics features found in Hertanu‟s findings are also helpful as the guideline of this thesis. Hertanu ‟s thesis tries to see the social factors that influence the use of Black English in the movies. The setting of the movies is in 2000s and the social factors that are discussed include gender relation and power relation. Gender relations examine the relations of male-to-male or male to female relationship. Power re lations in Hertanu‟s analysis will include the relation of same or equal position, high position and low position to the speakers. The same or equal position elaborates the relation among friends in the equal position. The high position in Hertanu‟s analysis will discuss the position of one character is higher than the other in family context. The low position in these movies are shown when one character is richer than the other character. In this thesis, social factors are also discussed through the theory of speech accommodation. The differences between this thesis and He rtanu‟s thesis are on the subject of the research in the social status context. In Hertanu‟s, the subjects are based on gender and power relation. The power relation focuses on sibling relation. In this thesis, the subjects are the black housemaids and the white masters. Therefore, it will discuss the distinctive utterances between a black housemaid to a black housemaid, a black housemaid to a white master and a white master to a white master.