Given that actually spoken languages are dynamic systems, is it possible to improve the status of the Gullah language by modernizing it and changing the sociocultural meanings associated with it (“The Story of English”)? If so, how can it be achieved, and what social institutions should be involved?
Racial minority groups can be further divided into smaller subgroups based on the peculiarities of their linguistic identities. The assigned video shows fragments of an interview with an elderly Black woman named Jenny. She speaks the Gullah language, the language that has contributed to modern African Americans’ speaking practices (“The...