[摘要]

黑人英语是英语的一个重要分支，作为特定文化群体－非裔美国人的语言它们包罗万象、精彩纷呈，无不打上了这一“特殊”群体的深刻民族思想以及文化烙印。然而黑人英语在读音、拼写、词汇、语法上与标准美国英语却有很多不同，这对国人正确理解黑人英语所传达出的文化内涵造成了障碍。本文将以著名黑人小说家Alice Walker 的短篇小说《Everyday use for your grandma》(日常家用)为切入点，从读音、拼写、词汇、语法等角度深入分析黑人英语的特点及文化内涵，为更好的理解和认知黑人英语提供参考。

[关键词]黑人英语; 特点; 文化内涵 日常家用

Abstract:

Black English is an important branch of English language. As the language of a special cultural group-African American they are comprehensive, exciting. All this reflects on a "special" group of profound national thought and cultural imprint. Black English is a lot different in pronunciation, spelling, vocabulary, grammar and standard from standard English, which makes obstacles for people to understand correctly the cultural connotation of black English. Linguistic studies have well-developed, but mediocre for the results of the research of black English are still not so good. This article takes famous black novelist Alice Walker's short story “Everyday use for your grandma” as an example, analyzes from the perspective of pronunciation, spelling, vocabulary, grammar, and presents other centralized analysis of characteristics and cultural connotation of black English, provides better understanding of black English and black literature.

Keywords: black English; everyday use; features; cultural connotation;

1.    Introduction
Alice Walker is one of the most famous female African American writers, as well as the first African American female winner of the Pulitzer Prize. As the leader of the black women's literature, Walker paid special concern on black women's living conditions and their inner world in her writings.[1] How to correctly understand and maintain their cultural identities for African American? In the short story of “Everyday use for your grandma”, Alice Walker, the author of Dee, Maggie, who painted vivid character of the American black people in their quest for integration into the United States mainstream white culture manifested in the process of contradictions, struggle and distort to show full of personality, and she also commended the United States blacks who did good for the heritage and retention of black culture. “Everyday use for your grandma” was written in 1973, when black  people were on high national consciousness.[1] Alice Walker’s “Everyday use for your grandma” truly reflects African American’s ethnic cultural identity of perplexity and confusion in the 20th century. Black people at that time were facing unique historical decisions of both black African cultural heritage and American cultural heritage dual identity. For those black people who tried to throw or overemphasis on either side would only be one-sided, superficial.