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Author | : Geneviève Escure |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 1997-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027252408 |
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Although there is a substantial amount of linguistic research on standard language acquisition, little attention has been given to the mechanisms underlying second dialect acquisition. Using a combination of function-based grammar and sociolinguistic methodology to analyze topic marking strategies, the unguided acquisition of a standard by speakers of nonstandard varieties is examined in two distinct linguistic and geographical situations: in a Caribbean creole situation (Belize), with special attention to the acquisition of acrolects by native speakers of basilects, and in a noncreole situation (PRC), documenting the acquisition of standard Chinese (Putonghua) by speakers of nonstandard varieties represented in Cultural Revolution literature, Wuhan Chinese, and Suzhou Wu story-telling style. In both cases psychosocial factors, linguistic bias toward nonnative renderings of the standard varieties, the social status of their speakers, and related political and educational consequences play an important role in the development of second dialects. The broad-ranging analysis of a single feature of oral discourse leads to the formulation of cross-linguistic generalizations in acquisition studies and results in an evaluation of the putative uniqueness of creole languages. Related issues addressed include the effect of linguistic bias on the development and use of language varieties by marginalized groups; the interaction of three major language components semantics, syntax, and pragmatics in spontaneous communication; and the development of methods to identify discourse units. The ultimate goal underlying the comparison of specific discourse variables in Belizean and Chinese standard acquisition is to evaluate the relative merits of substratal, superstratal, and universal explanations in language development.
Author | : Lars Hinrichs |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027252599 |
Download Variation in the Caribbean Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The study of linguistic variation in the Caribbean has been central to the emergence of Pidgin and Creole Linguistics as an academic field. It has yielded influential theory, such as the (post-)creole continuum or the 'Acts of Identity' models, that has shaped sociolinguistics far beyond creole settings. This volume collects current work in the field and focuses on methodological and theoretical innovations that continue, expand, and update the dialog between Caribbean variation studies and general sociolinguistics.
Author | : John R. Rickford |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780804713771 |
Download Dimensions of a Creole Continuum Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A Stanford University Press classic.
Author | : John R. Rickford |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Creole dialects |
ISBN | : |
Download Standard and Non-standard Language Attitudes in a Creole Continuum Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Arnold R. Highfield |
Publisher | : Karoma Publishers, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Creole dialects |
ISBN | : |
Download Historicity and Variation in Creole Studies Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Ian Robertson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Creole dialects |
ISBN | : |
Download Redefining the Post-creole Continuum Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Shondel J. Nero |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0805846581 |
Download Dialects, Englishes, Creoles, and Education Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Brings together a multiplicity of voices on the complex politics, challenges, and strategies of educating students - in North America and worldwide - who are speakers of diverse or nonstandard varieties of English, and hybrid varieties of English, such as African American Vernacular English, Caribbean Creole English, Tex Mex, among others.
Author | : John Russell Rickford |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 389 |
Release | : 2019-01-24 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1108577385 |
Download Variation, Versatility and Change in Sociolinguistics and Creole Studies Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
By the award-winning former president of the Linguistic Society of America, this collection of some of John Russell Rickford's pioneering works shows how linguists in sociolinguistics and creole studies can benefit from utilizing data, theories and methods from each other, as they more frequently did in the 1960s and 1970s, when both subfields, in their modern forms at least, were getting started. The volume addresses fundamental sociolinguistic topics such as social class, style, fieldwork, speech community, sociolinguistic competence and language attitudes with data from Guyanese and other Caribbean creoles. Recurrent concepts are also considered including language versatility, variation and change, vernacular use, school success and criminal justice in African America and the Caribbean, using models, case studies and methodologies from sociolinguistics. Theoretical and applied scholars, students apprehensive about sociolinguistic fieldwork, and those considering dynamic methods like implicational scaling about which little is written in linguistics textbooks, will find this volume invaluable. Includes a Foreword by Gillian Sankoff.
Author | : John Holm |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780521585811 |
Download An Introduction to Pidgins and Creoles Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A clear and concise introduction to the study of how new languages come into being.
Author | : Claire Lefebvre |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 638 |
Release | : 2011-02-17 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027287430 |
Download Creoles, their Substrates, and Language Typology Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Since creole languages draw their properties from both their substrate and superstrate sources, the typological classification of creoles has long been a major issue for creolists, typologists, and linguists in general. Several contradictory proposals have been put forward in the literature. For example, creole languages typologically pair with their superstrate languages (Chaudenson 2003), with their substrate languages (Lefebvre 1998), or even, creole languages are alike (Bickerton 1984) such that they constitute a “definable typological class” (McWhorter 1998). This book contains 25 chapters bearing on detailed comparisons of some 30 creoles and their substrate languages. As the substrate languages of these creoles are typologically different, the detailed investigation of substrate features in the creoles leads to a particular answer to the question of how creoles should be classified typologically. The bulk of the data show that creoles reproduce the typological features of their substrate languages. This argues that creoles cannot be claimed to constitute a definable typological class.