From oral to literate culture : colonial experience in the English West Indies /
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Kingston, Jamaica :
Press University of the West Indies,
1997.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- An introduction to the language of West Indians
- Nonlinguistic methods of communication and transmission of information in the plantation slave society
- Aspects of oral culture in the slave population
- Political and social influences on the development of vernacular English
- Literate communication in the plantation slave society
- The rise of printing and publishing in the West Indies and its effects
- Intellectual and literary activity and its effects on literate English
- The rise of schools and their effect on English
- English language and literacy in the early schools
- The legacy of colonial literacy in West Indies.