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Trinidad Yoruba : From Mother-Tongue to Memory.

A deeply informed Afrocentric view of language and cultural retention under slavery. Maureen Warner-Lewis offers a comprehensive description of the West African language of Yoruba as it has been used on the island of Trinidad in the southern Caribbean. The study breaks new ground in addressing the e...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Warner-Lewis, Maureen
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 1996.
Colección:Caribbean archaeology and ethnohistory.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Contents; Acknowledgments; A Note on Ethnonyms; Orthographic Guide; Phonological Symbols; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part One: The Yoruba of Trinidad: Historical Background and Sociolinguistic Behavior; 1. The Yoruba and Transatlantic Slavery; 2. First-Generation Trinidad Yoruba Society; 3. Language Attitudes of Second- and Third-Generation Africans; 4. Residual Language Domains: Names and Ritual; Part Two: Trinidad Yoruba: Linguistic Structures; 5. Phonology; 6. Syntax; 7. Lexicon; Part Three: The Dialectics of Obsolescence and Creolization; 8. Language Recession within a Creolized Context.
  • 9. Creolization Processes in Broader PerspectiveAppendix: Trinidad Yoruba Lexicon in Alphabetical Order; Notes; References; Index.