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Urban Jamaican creole : variation in the mesolect /
A synchronic sociolinguistic study of Jamaican Creole (JC) as spoken in urban Kingston, this work uses variationist methods to closely investigate two key concepts of Atlantic Creole studies: the mesolect, and the creole continuum. One major concern is to describe how linguistic variation patterns w...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
J. Benjamins Pub.,
©1999.
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| Collection: | Varieties of English around the world. General series ;
v. 17. |
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | A synchronic sociolinguistic study of Jamaican Creole (JC) as spoken in urban Kingston, this work uses variationist methods to closely investigate two key concepts of Atlantic Creole studies: the mesolect, and the creole continuum. One major concern is to describe how linguistic variation patterns with social influences. Is there a linguistic continuum? How does it correlate with social factors? The complex organization of an urbanizing Caribbean society and the highly variable nature of mesolectal speech norms and behavior present a challenge to sociolinguistic variation theory. The second chi. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (xx, 329 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-320) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789027298539 902729853X 9781556194481 155619448X |