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• 1 2020-12-06T10:24:06-08:00 Intellectual Significance 3 plain 2020-12-06T14:13:42-08:00 The intellectual significance of this work lies in its attempt to center language as a sort of time capsule to examine culture that was created throughout the colonial and antebellum U.S. Although in the 21^st century, linguists and English scholars understand AAVE, there is still much work being done in creating regional specificities beyond the broad umbrella of AAVE. I am particularly curious if it is possible to capture what I am broadly calling Black Atlantic Linguistics – phonology, syntax, nomenclature and terminology that find their roots in the Black Atlantic as it relates to the Southern United states. Then, I want to trace its movement through the two Great Migrations which I believe to be a defining moment or shift which affected the shibboleth of Black Atlantic linguistic features.
  
  I am working under the assumption that language and speechways were indeed lost, but there are still retentions which can make significant connection not just to the South, but to a very particular mode of identity making that occurred in The Black Atlantic.
  
  Because this is a multi-modal project, consisting of both a literature review or written portion (some of which is began below throughout this proposal) and an interactive map comprised of information collected from volunteers, I believe it has multiple audiences, both academic and mainstream.