A Brief Analysis of African American Vernacular English(AAVE)-A Case Study of an AAVE Hip-Pop Song 'Live Your Life'

摘要

This paper tries to analyse the linguistic feafures of AAVE with a case study of a typical and popular AAVE hip-pop"Live your life"song sang by T.I.and Rihanna.And it also briefly analyses the potential social reasons that may contribute to the particular linguistic features of AAVE which is different from those of Standard American English.