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Codeswitching on the web : English and Jamaican Creole in e-mail communication /
Based on a corpus of private email from Jamaican university students, this study explores the discourse functions of Jamaican Creole in computer-mediated communication. From this participant-centered perspective, it contributes to the longstanding theoretical debates in creole studies about the creo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA :
J. Benjamins Pub.,
©2006.
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| Colección: | Pragmatics & beyond ;
new ser., 147. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Based on a corpus of private email from Jamaican university students, this study explores the discourse functions of Jamaican Creole in computer-mediated communication. From this participant-centered perspective, it contributes to the longstanding theoretical debates in creole studies about the creole continuum. The book will likewise be useful to students of computer-mediated communication, the use and development of non-standardized languages, language ecology, and codeswitching. The central methodological issue in this study is codeswitching in written language, a neglected area of study at. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vi, 301 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027293305 9027293309 9789027253903 9027253900 |
| ISSN: | 0922-842X ; |