St. Kitts and the Atlantic Creoles
Author | : Philip Baker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Philip Baker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jane Landers |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2010-02-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674035917 |
In a tumultuous era of Atlantic revolutions, a remarkable group of African-born and African-descended individuals transformed themselves from slaves into active agents of their lives and times. Through prodigious archival research, Landers alters our vision of the breadth and extent of the Age of Revolution, and our understanding of its actors.
Author | : Mikael Parkvall |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Ian F. Hancock |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Creole dialects, English |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Nicholas G. Faraclas |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 157 |
Release | : 2021-05-16 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1000386333 |
This innovative book contributes to a paradigm shift in the study of creole languages, forging new empirical frameworks for understanding language and culture in sociohistorical contact. The authors bring together archival sources to challenge dominant linguistic theory and practice and engage issues of power, positioning marginalized indigenous peoples as the center of, and vital agents in, these languages’ formation and development. Students in language contact, pidgins and creoles, Caribbean studies, and postcolonial studies courses—and scholars across many disciplines—will benefit from this book and be convinced of the importance of understanding creoles and creolization.
Author | : Danae Maria Perez |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2021-06-08 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110724030 |
In the Americas, both indigenous and postcolonial languages today bear witness of massive changes that have taken place since the colonial era. However, a unified approach to languages from different colonial areas is still missing. The present volume studies postcolonial varieties that emerged due to changing linguistic and sociolinguistic conditions in different settings across the Americas. The studies cover indigenous languages that are undergoing lexical and grammatical change due to the presence of colonial languages and the emergence of new dialects and creoles due to contact. The contributions showcase the diversity of approaches to tackle fundamental questions regarding the processes triggered by language contact as well as the wide range of outcomes contact has had in postcolonial settings. The volume adds to the documentation of the linguistic properties of postcolonial language varieties in a socio-historically informed framework. It explores the complex dynamics of extra-linguistic factors that brought about the processes of language change in them and contributes to a better understanding of the determinant factors that lead to the emergence and evolution of such codes.
Author | : Umberto Ansaldo |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2007-06-22 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027292396 |
Deconstructing Creole is a collection of studies aimed at critically assessing the idea of creole languages as a homogeneous structural type with shared and peculiar patterns of genesis. Following up on the critical discussion of notions of ‘creole exceptionalism’ as historical and ideological constructs, this volume tests the basic assumptions that underlie current attempts to present ‘creole structure’ as a special type, from typological as well as sociohistorical perspectives. The sum of the findings presented here suggests that careful empirical investigation of input varieties and contact environments can explain the structural output without recourse to an exceptional genesis scenario. Echoing calls to dissolve the notion of ‘creolization’ as a special diachronic process, this volume proposes that theoretically grounded approaches to the notions of simplicity, complexity, transmission, etc. do not warrant considering so-called ‘creole’ languages as a special synchronic type.
Author | : John McWhorter |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2000-07-03 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 0520219996 |
A controversial new analysis of the development of New World creole languages among slaves. Mc Whorter makes a vast amount of new data available in his book, and posits that New World creole languages developed in West Africa, not on the plantations in the New World.
Author | : Marinela Burada |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2014-06-30 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1443863122 |
This book consists of a collection of papers on specific issues centred around three broad areas of scholarly interest: native language analysis, foreign language acquisition and training, and cultural and literary studies. It provides a concise snapshot of the multiplicity of vantage points from which language, literature and culture-related phenomena can be studied and accounted for. The unifying principle behind the variety of issues and approaches illustrated here is the overarching notion of Englishness treated as an object of intellectual inquiry (with a focus on the English-speaking communities, their cultures, English-based creole languages) and as a repository of methodological blueprints applicable in explorations of other languages and cultures. The authors of the articles included in this volume are academics and junior researchers who, on the occasion of the 10th Conference on British and American Studies, convened to share their ideas and pave the way for further work in intersecting research areas subsumed under linguistics, sociolinguistics, and cultural studies.
Author | : Belinda Edmondson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 205 |
Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0192856839 |
Creole Noise is a history of Creole, or 'dialect', literature and performance in the English-speaking Caribbean, from the late eighteenth century to the early twentieth century. By emphasizing multiracial origins, transnational influences, and musical performance alongside often violent historical events of the nineteenth century - slavery, Emancipation, the Morant Bay Rebellion, the era of blackface minstrelsy, indentureship and immigration - it revises the common view that literary dialect in the Caribbean was a relatively modern, twentieth-century phenomenon, associated with regional anti-colonial or black-affirming nationalist projects. It explores both the lives and the literary texts of a number of early progenitors, among these a number of pro-slavery white creoles as well as the first black author of literary dialect in the English-speaking Caribbean. Creole Noise features a number of fascinating historical characters, among these Henry Garland Murray, a black Jamaican journalist and lecturer; Michael McTurk, the white magistrate from British Guiana who, as 'Quow', authored one of the earliest books of dialect literature; as well as blackface comedian and calypsonian Sam Manning, who along with Marcus Garvey's ex-wife, Amy Ashwood Garvey, wrote a popular dialect play that traveled across the United States. In so doing it reconstructs an earlier period of dialect literature, usually isolated or dismissed from the cultural narrative as racist mimicry or merely political, not part of a continuum of artistic production in the Caribbean.