Come The theory of African American Vernacular English

Southerners began passing new laws enforcing racial segregation separation of black people from whites known as Jim Crow Laws. Based on Encyclopedia Britannica 2015, Jim Crow Law is any of the laws that enforced racial segregation in the South between the end of the formal Reconstruction period in 1877 and the beginning of a strong civil rights movement in the 1950s. The segregation was enforcing the „Black‟ Americans to be not equal with the „White‟ Americans in facilities such as they had to use the different bus, different library, and different bathroom. The segregation is seen in the novel proposed by a white lady, Hilly Holbrook. “That‟s exactly why I‟ve designed the Home Help Sanitation Initiative,” Miss Hilly say. “As a disease-preventive measure.” Miss Skeeter look real confused. “The Home… the what?‟ “A bill that requires every white home to have a separate bathroom for the colored help. I‟ve been notified the surgeon general of Mississippi to see if he‟ll endorse the idea. I pass.” Stocket, 2009: 10 Not only in the term of facility, had the „Black‟ Americans also separated in opportunity. They lived under poverty, they had to work hard to the „White‟ Americans, and most children had to quit their school. As it seen in Minni e‟s monologue, “I was fourteen years old to the day… I was about to quit school and start my first job ” Stocket, 2009:45. Therefore, there was a movement proposing the end of racial segregation in the United States, it was known as African- American Civil Rights. This civil rights bring benefits to African- American citizen that they are now equal to any races in the United States. “This was also the time when the word Negro came to be replaced by the word Black with reference to Afro-Americans. The new concept of “Blackness” and the new use of the word Black in the sixties spawned several new concepts and the phrase that denote them: Black power, Black studies, Black history, and last but not leas t, Black English” Kovecses,2000: 95- 96 2 .Theory of Standard English The theory of Standard English is used to find out the definition of Standard English and it is compared to African American Vernacular English. Therefore, the differences between those two variations of English can be understood.

a. Definition of Standard English

The term „Standard English‟ was established from the dialect of English. The dialect was flourished and used by the educated people. “This dialect became the one preferred by the educated, and it was developed and promoted as model, or norm, for wider and wider segments of society. ” Wardaugh, 1992:31 Until today, the term Standard English is considered as the right form of English. People use Standard English to determine what is right and what is wrong. Before we judge whether one English is standard or not, we better know the definition of Standard English first. Standard itself becomes controversy among linguists. According to Peter Trudgill, the definitions of Standard English can be divided into some categories; Standard English is not a language, Standard English is not an accent, Standard English is not a style, and Standard English is not register. Standard English is seen as the language of educated people. Standard English is a variety of English that can be obtained in academic institution or academic