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The Creole Debate

2018-05-17 Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Synopsis The Creole Debate by : John H. McWhorter

Download or read book The Creole Debate written by John H. McWhorter. This book was released on 2018-05-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creoles have long been the subject of debate in linguistics, with many conflicting views, both on how they are formed, and what their political and linguistic status should be. Indeed, over the past twenty years, some creole specialists have argued that it has been wrong to think of creoles as anything but language blends in the same way that Yiddish is a blend of German and Hebrew and Slavic. Here, John H. McWhorter debunks the most widely accepted idea that creoles are created in the same way as 'children', taking characteristics from both 'parent' languages, and its underlying assumption that all historical and biological processes are the same. Instead, the facts support the original, and more interesting, argument that creoles are their own unique entity and are among the world's only genuinely new languages.

The Creole Debate

2018-05-17 Foreign Language Study
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Book Synopsis The Creole Debate by : John H. McWhorter

Download or read book The Creole Debate written by John H. McWhorter. This book was released on 2018-05-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling argument for why creoles are their own unique entity, which have developed independently of other processes of language development and change.

Creole Discourse

2002-11-18 Language Arts & Disciplines
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Release : 2002-11-18
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Book Synopsis Creole Discourse by : Susanne Mühleisen

Download or read book Creole Discourse written by Susanne Mühleisen. This book was released on 2002-11-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creole languages are characteristically associated with a negative image. How has this prestige been formed? And is it as static as the diglossic situation in many anglo-creolophone societies seems to suggest? This volume examines socio-historical and epistemological factors in the prestige formation of Caribbean English-Lexicon Creoles and subjects their classification as a (socio)linguistic type to scrutiny and critical debate. In its analysis of rich empirical data this study also demonstrates that the uses, functions and negotiations of Creole within particular social and linguistic practices have shifted considerably. Rather than limiting its scope to one "national" speech community, the discussion focusses on changes of the social meaning of Creole in various discursive fields, such as inter generational changes of Creole use in the London Diaspora, diachronic changes of Creole representation in written texts, and diachronic changes of Creole representation in translation. The study employs a discourse analytical approach drawing on linguistic models as well as Foucauldian theory.

The Emergence of Pidgin and Creole Languages

2008-02-28 Foreign Language Study
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Release : 2008-02-28
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Book Synopsis The Emergence of Pidgin and Creole Languages by : Jeff Siegel

Download or read book The Emergence of Pidgin and Creole Languages written by Jeff Siegel. This book was released on 2008-02-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the emergence of pidgins and creoles and the controversies surrounding current theories about them. Among the questions considered are why their grammars are simple, at the pidgin-creole-postcreole life cycle, and the causes of grammatical innovation. The analysis is supported with detailed examples and case studies.

A History of Afro-Hispanic Language

2005-03-10 Foreign Language Study
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Release : 2005-03-10
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Book Synopsis A History of Afro-Hispanic Language by : John M. Lipski

Download or read book A History of Afro-Hispanic Language written by John M. Lipski. This book was released on 2005-03-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The African slave trade, beginning in the fifteenth century, brought African languages into contact with Spanish and Portuguese, resulting in the Africans' gradual acquisition of these languages. In this 2004 book, John Lipski describes the major forms of Afro-Hispanic language found in the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America over the last 500 years. As well as discussing pronunciation, morphology and syntax, he separates legitimate forms of Afro-Hispanic expression from those that result from racist stereotyping, to assess how contact with the African diaspora has had a permanent impact on contemporary Spanish. A principal issue is the possibility that Spanish, in contact with speakers of African languages, may have creolized and restructured - in the Caribbean and perhaps elsewhere - permanently affecting regional and social varieties of Spanish today. The book is accompanied by the largest known anthology of primary Afro-Hispanic texts from Iberia, Latin America, and former Afro-Hispanic contacts in Africa and Asia.

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