Jamaican Creole goes Web : sociolinguistic styling and authenticity in a digital 'Yaad' /

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Large-scale migration after WWII and the prominence of Jamaican Creole in the media have promoted its use all around the globe. Deterritorialisation has entailed the contact-induced transformation of Jamaican Creole in diaspora communities and its adoption by 'crossers'. Taking sociolingui...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Moll, Andrea
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2015]
Colección:Creole language library ; v. 49.
Temas:
Creole > Dialect > Jamaica.
World Wide Web > Languages.
Web > Langues.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > General.
Creoles > Caribbean Area > Jamaica.
Electronic communication.
New media > Language.
Creole dialects, English > Jamaica.
Jamaica
Jamaica.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Jamaican Creole Goes Web
  • Editorial page
  • Title page
  • LCC data
  • Table of contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1. The globalisation of Jamaican Creole
  • 1.1 Jamaican Creole in the diaspora
  • 1.2 'Crossing' into popular style
  • 1.3 21st century Cyber-Jamaican
  • 2. Creole on the web: The 'Corpus of Cyber-Jamaican'
  • 3. The sociolinguistics of CMC
  • 3.1 Locating community in cyberspace
  • 3.2 Finding virtual identity
  • 3.3 Negotiating authenticity
  • 4. Spelling: Grassroots conventionalisation and styling
  • 4.1 Standard written JC?
  • More than just graphemes
  • 4.2 Orthography as a social practice
  • 4.3 To mean or not to mean
  • The semantic load of orthography
  • 4.4 Orthographic conventions on the move
  • 4.4.1 Colloquial spelling
  • 4.4.2 Creole on the screen
  • 4.4.3 Orthographic eye catchers
  • 4.4.4 Grassroots conventionalisation in the CCJ: A brief summary
  • 4.5 Of users and their topics
  • 4.6 Orthographic 'acts of identity'
  • 5. 'Cyber-Jamaican': A digital ethnolinguistic repertoire
  • 5.1 Styling and competence
  • 5.2 'Repertoire portraits': Between macro- and micro-analysis
  • 6. The sociolinguistic authenticity of 'Cyber-Jamaican'
  • 6.1 Folk linguistic evaluation: The outsider's view
  • 6.2 Authentication in performance
  • 7. Conclusion
  • Orthography as a social practice
  • 'Cyber-Jamaican' as a digital ethnolinguistic repertoire
  • Sociolinguistic authentication in dialect performance
  • Future research
  • References
  • Appendix
  • Index.

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