While reading the the the article on Bidialecticism in the classroom, the question which arose in my mind was concerning the written syntax when expressing "lacking the dummy 'do' auxiliary" or "the frequent absence of /s/ inflection for the positive plural." which is present in AAE. The examples given in the article piqued my curiosity concerning not only the grammatical constructs concerning these variations, but I was also drawn to wonder why these examples use the underscore as part of the lexical syntax. It seems this technique was part of the written exercise on the work sheet handed out the other day. I found my self asking a similar question. In class discussion this had slipped my mind. Seeing once again this variation in print form in this essay rekindled my curiosity. If anyone may know more concerning this use of the underscore I would be interested to receiving an explanation.
The examples used in the article were:
‘The hospital seem_ nice’,
typical syntax from black teenage characters in June Jordan’s (1971, p. 10) novel.
‘My momma _ name is Annie’
(Labov, 1982, p. 170)
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