Creole

Author : Umberto Ansaldo,Miriam Meyerhoff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000221480

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The Routledge Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Languages by Umberto Ansaldo,Miriam Meyerhoff Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Languages offers a state-of-the-art collection of original contributions in the area of Pidgin and Creole studies. Providing unique and equal coverage of nearly all parts of the world where such languages are found, as well as situating each area within a rich socio-historical context, this book presents fresh and diverse interdisciplinary perspectives from leading voices in the field. Divided into three sections, its analysis covers: Space and place – areal perspective on pidgin and creole languages Usage, function and power – sociolinguistic and artistic perspectives on pidgins and creoles, creoles as sociocultural phenomena Framing of the study of pidgin and creole languages – history of the field, interdisciplinary connections Demonstrating how fundamentally human and natural these communication systems are, how rich in expressive power and sophisticated in their complexity, The Routledge Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Languages is an essential reference for anyone with an interest in this area.

Author : Stephen Cosgrove
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1948180022

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Creole by Stephen Cosgrove Pdf

Creole is a unique creature who lives alone in the swamp. She lives alone because the other creatures that live there are frightened by her looks. Looks can be deceiving and so can judging a book by its cover.

Author : John H. McWhorter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2005-02-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780190290405

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Defining Creole by John H. McWhorter Pdf

A conventional wisdom among creolists is that creole is a sociohistorical term only: that creole languages share a particular history entailing adults rapidly acquiring a language usually under conditions of subordination, but that structurally they are indistinguishable from other languages. The articles by John H. McWhorter collected in this volume demonstrate that this is in fact untrue. Creole languages, while complex and nuanced as all human languages are, are delineable from older languages as the result of their having come into existence only a few centuries ago. Then adults learn a language under untutored conditions, they abbreviate its structure, focusing upon features vital to communication and shaving away most of the features useless to communication that bedevil those acquiring the language non-natively. When they utilize their rendition of the language consistently enough to create a brand-new one, this new creation naturally evinces evidence of its youth: specifically, a much lower degree of the random accretions typical in older languages, which only develop over vast periods of time. The articles constitute a case for this thesis based on both broad, cross-creole ranges of data and focused expositions referring to single creole languages. The book presents a general case for a theory of language contact and creolization in which not only transfer from source languages but also structural reduction plays a central role, based on facts whose marginality of address in creole studies has arisen from issues sociopolitical as well as scientific. For several decades the very definition of the term creole has been elusive even among creole specialists. This book attempts to forge a path beyond the inter- and intra-disciplinary misunderstandings and stalemates that have resulted from this, and to demonstrate the place that creoles might occupy in other linguistic subfields, including typology, language contact, and syntactic theory.

Author : Carolyn Vellenga Berman
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501726835

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Creole Crossings by Carolyn Vellenga Berman Pdf

The character of the Creole woman—the descendant of settlers or slaves brought up on the colonial frontier—is a familiar one in nineteenth-century French, British, and American literature. In Creole Crossings, Carolyn Vellenga Berman examines the use of this recurring figure in such canonical novels as Jane Eyre, Uncle Tom's Cabin, and Indiana, as well as in the antislavery discourse of the period. "Creole" in its etymological sense means "brought up domestically," and Berman shows how the campaign to reform slavery in the colonies converged with literary depictions of family life. Illuminating a literary genealogy that crosses political, familial, and linguistic lines, Creole Crossings reveals how racial, sexual, and moral boundaries continually shifted as the century's writers reflected on the realities of slavery, empire, and the home front. Berman offers compelling readings of the "domestic fiction" of Honoré de Balzac, Charlotte Brontë, Maria Edgeworth, Harriet Jacobs, George Sand, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and others, alongside travel narratives, parliamentary reports, medical texts, journalism, and encyclopedias. Focusing on a neglected social classification in both fiction and nonfiction, Creole Crossings establishes the crucial importance of the Creole character as a marker of sexual norms and national belonging.

Author : Bettina Migge
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2003-07-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027296597

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Creole Formation as Language Contact by Bettina Migge Pdf

The research on the formation of (radical) creoles has seen an unprecedented intensification and diversification in the last 20 years. This book discusses, illustrates, and evaluates current research on creole formation based on an in-depth investigation of the processes and mechanisms that contributed to the emergence of the morphosyntactic system of the creoles of Suriname. The study draws on a rich corpus of a) natural conversational and elicited synchronic linguistic data from the Eastern Maroon Creole (EMC) and its main African substrate language, Gbe, b) published diachronic data from the EMC’s sister-language Sranan Tongo, and c) information on the early history of Suriname coming from socio-historical investigations. It suggests that mechanisms of deliberate and contact-induced change also involved in borrowing and particularly shift situations led to the initial formation of the creoles of Suriname while language-internal change played a role in their subsequent development.

Author : Janet Ravare Colson
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781105647024

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THE Creole Book by Janet Ravare Colson Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004460157

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When Creole and Spanish Collide by Anonim Pdf

When Creoles and Spanish Collide: Language and Culture in the Caribbean presents a contemporary look on how Creole English communities in Central America grapple with evolving Creole identity and representation, language contact with Spanish, language endangerment, discrimination, and linguistic creativity.

Author : Jeff Siegel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2008-02-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199216666

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The Emergence of Pidgin and Creole Languages by Jeff Siegel Pdf

This book examines the emergence of pidgins and creoles and the controversies surrounding current theories about them. Among the questions considered are why their grammars are simple, at the pidgin-creole-postcreole life cycle, and the causes of grammatical innovation. The analysis is supported with detailed examples and case studies.

Author : John H. McWhorter
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027252432

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Language Change and Language Contact in Pidgins and Creoles by John H. McWhorter Pdf

This book collects a selection of fifteen papers presented at three meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics in 1996 and 1997. The focus is on papers which approach issues in creole studies with novel perspectives, address understudied pidgin and creole varieties, or compellingly argue for controversial positions. The papers demonstrate how pidgins and creoles shed light on issues such as verb movement, contact-induced language change and its gradations, discourse management via tense-aspect particles, language genesis, substratal transfer, and Universal Grammar, and cover a wide range of contact languages, ranging from English- and French-based creoles through Portuguese creoles of Africa and Asia, Sango, Popular Brazilian Portuguese, West African Pidgin Englishes, and Hawaiian Creole English.

Author : Richard R. Day
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1980-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783872762450

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Issues in English Creoles by Richard R. Day Pdf

The purpose of this volume is to make more accessible, for the use of researchers and students in the field of pidgins and creoles, presentations of the third International Conference on Pidgins and Creoles in Honolulu, 1975, dealing with English-based creoles. Aside from their documentary value, the ten papers of this volume are of interest for several reasons: they contain interesting data and observations on the languages themselves, in particular Trinidadian Creole, Guyanese Creole, St. Kitts Creole, and Bahamian English. Additionally, the contributions are significant for the insights they have into the importance of variation, a topic which must be confronted by those who investigate pidgins and creoles. Apart from Bickerton s paper dealing with universals, the papers are presented according to the geographic area where the linguistic systems are used.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Hippocrene Books
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0781814006

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My First Haitian Creole Dictionary by Anonim Pdf

Learn Haitian Creole with new picture dictionary series from trusted publisher of foreign language study guides, Hippocrene Books! Haitian Creole developed around the 18th century during France's colonial occupation, and contains elements of French along with strong influences from Spanish, Arabic, Táino, Arawak, and English. It is spoken by about 12 million people worldwide, and is the only language of most Haitians. With colorful, eye-catching illustrations to stimulate imagination and curiosity, My First Haitian Creole Dictionary is specially designed for children ages 5 to 12. It contains more than 1,000 everyday words (from colors, animals, household items, foods and more)--each illustrated and translated into Haitian Creole. The illustrations are arranged alphabetically by English so even young readers can easily search for words, and each one is labeled with clear, bold type. Recent studies suggest that children should begin learning a foreign language before age 10 for best results. This dictionary is a fun, engaging way for parents or grandparents to introduce Haitian Creole to young children. Teachers will also find the dictionary useful for students who are learning Haitian Creole or English from Kindergarten and up.

Author : Susanne Muehleisen,Bettina Migge
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 902724894X

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Politeness and Face in Caribbean Creoles by Susanne Muehleisen,Bettina Migge Pdf

Politeness and Face in Caribbean Creoles is the first collection to focus on socio-pragmatic issues in the Caribbean context, including the socio-cultural rules and principles underlying strategic language use. While the Caribbean has long been recognized as a rich and interesting site where cultural continuities meet with new "creolized" or innovative practices, questions of politeness practices, constructions of personhood, or the notion of face have so far been neglected in linguistic research on Caribbean Creoles. Drawing on linguistic politeness theory and Goffman's concept of face, eleven mostly fieldwork-based innovative contributions critically examine a range of topics, such as ritual insults, strategic use of "bad language", kiss-teeth, the performance of homophobic threats, greetings, address forms, advice-giving, socialization and discourse, parent-child discourse, register choice and communicative repertoire in the Caribbean context.

Author : Rain Prud'homme-Cranford,Darryl Barthé,Andrew J. Jolivétte
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780295749501

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Louisiana Creole Peoplehood by Rain Prud'homme-Cranford,Darryl Barthé,Andrew J. Jolivétte Pdf

Over the course of more than three centuries, the diverse communities of Louisiana have engaged in creative living practices to forge a vibrant, multifaceted, and fully developed Creole culture. Against the backdrop of ongoing anti-Blackness and Indigenous erasure that has sought to undermine this rich culture, Louisiana Creoles have found transformative ways to uphold solidarity, kinship, and continuity, retaking Louisiana Creole agency as a post-contact Afro-Indigenous culture. Engaging themes as varied as foodways, queer identity, health, historical trauma, language revitalization, and diaspora, Louisiana Creole Peoplehood explores vital ways a specific Afro-Indigenous community asserts agency while promoting cultural sustainability, communal dialogue, and community reciprocity. With interviews, essays, and autobiographic contributions from community members and scholars, Louisiana Creole Peoplehood tracks the sacred interweaving of land and identity alongside the legacies and genealogies of Creole resistance to bring into focus the Afro-Indigenous people written out of settler governmental policy. In doing so, this collection intervenes against the erasure of Creole Indigeneity to foreground Black/Indian cultural sustainability, agency, and self-determination.

Author : Rosabelle Boswell
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Creoles
ISBN : 1845450752

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Le Malaise Créole by Rosabelle Boswell Pdf

How does one explain the poverty and marginalization of a group that lives in a remarkably successful economy and peaceful society? A native anthropologist, the author provides critical insight into the dynamics of contemporary Mauritian society. In her meticulously researched study of ethnic, gender and racial discrimination in Mauritius, she addresses debates carried out in many developing societies on subaltern identities, ethnicity, poverty and social injustice. The book therefore also offers important empirical material for scholars interested in the wider Indian Ocean region and beyond.

Author : Claire Lefebvre,Lydia White,Christine Jourdan
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027253026

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L2 Acquisition and Creole Genesis by Claire Lefebvre,Lydia White,Christine Jourdan Pdf

In this volume, second language (L2) acquisition researchers and creolists engage in a dialogue, focusing on processes at work in L2 acquisition and creole genesis. The volume opens with an overview of the relationship between L2 acquisition and pidgins/creoles (Siegel). The first group of papers addresses current language contact at a societal or an individual level (Smith; Terrill and Dunn; Bruhn de Garavito and Atoche; Liceras et al.; Muller). The second section focuses on processes characterizing various stages of L2 acquisition and creole genesis: relexification and transfer from the L1 and their role in the initial state (Sprouse; Schwartz; Kouwenberg; Aboh; Ionin). Chapters in the third section discuss processes involved in developing grammars, namely, reanalysis and restructuring (Sanchez; Brousseau and Nikiema; Steele and Brousseau). The final section concentrates on fossilization and the end state (Cornips and Hulk; Montrul; Lardiere). Between them, the chapters cover lexical, morphological, phonological, semantic and syntactic properties of interlanguage grammars and creole grammars.