Creole discourse : exploring prestige formation and change across Caribbean English-lexicon Creoles /

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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 formatio...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Muehleisen, Susanne
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA : J. Benjamins Pub., ©2002.
Colección:Creole language library ; v. 24.
Temas:
Creole dialects, English > Social aspects > Caribbean Area.
Sociolinguistics > Caribbean Area.
Langues créoles (anglaises) > Aspect social > Caraïbes (Région)
Sociolinguistique > Caraïbes (Région)
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > General.
Creole dialects, English > Social aspects.
Sociolinguistics.
Engelse creooltalen.
Taalverandering.
Sociolinguïstiek.
Caribbean Area.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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 Creoles and subjects their classification as a (socio)linguistic type to scrutiny and critical debate. In its analysis of rich empirical data this study also demonstrates that the uses, functions and negotiations of Creole within particular social and linguistic practi.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (viii, 331 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-286) and index.
ISBN:9789027296337
9027296332
9789027252463
9027252467
ISSN:0920-9026 ;

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