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Code Switching on the Web
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Code Switching on the WebCode Switching on the Web

In this presentation of his doctoral dissertation research, Lars Hinrichs outlines the discursive functions of codeswitching between Jamaican Creole (Patois) and Jamaican English in computer-mediated communication (CMC).

This book should be of both methodological and theoretical interest to scholars of CMC, writing systems and their development, interactional sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, linguistic anthropology, codeswitching and language contact, creole studies, English as a World Language (EWL), and the Caribbean area and its diaspora.

 
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Tags: Jamaican, Patois, Creole, English, computer-mediated, Switching, codeswitching, analysis
Creole Discourse. Exploring prestige formation and change across Caribbean English-lexicon creoles.
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Creole Discourse. Exploring prestige formation and change across Caribbean English-lexicon creoles.Creole Discourse. Exploring prestige formation and change across Caribbean English-lexicon creoles.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...


Edited by: coocho - 13 August 2010
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Tags: prestige, Caribbean, Creole, formation, classification, Englishlexicon
Creolization of Language and Culture
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Creolization of Language and CultureCreolization of Language and Culture is the first English edition of Robert Chaudenson’s landmark reference Des оles, des hommes, des langues, which has also been fully revised.
Focusing on major French Creoles of the Indian Ocean and the Caribbean, Chaudenson argues against traditional accounts of creole genesis and for a more sophisticated alternative that takes full account of the peculiar linguistic and social factors at play in the European settlement colonies.
 
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Tags: Language, Culture, creole, genesis, sophisticated
Defining Creole
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Defining Creole
A conventional wisdom among creolists is that creole is a sociohistorical term only: that creole languages share a particular history entailing adults rapidly acquiring a language usually under conditions of subordination, but that structurally they are indistinguishable from other languages. The articles by John H. McWhorter collected in this volume demonstrate that this is in fact untrue.
 
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Tags: languages, creole, indistinguishable, other, structurally