Nominal And Pronominal Address In Jamaica And Trinidad

Author : Matthias Klumm
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027258953

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Nominal and Pronominal Address in Jamaica and Trinidad by Matthias Klumm Pdf

This book examines the various patterns of nominal and pronominal address used in Jamaica and Trinidad, the two most populous islands of the English-speaking Caribbean. Given that the Anglo-Caribbean context has so far been largely neglected in address research, this study aims to provide an in-depth analysis of the linguistic means Jamaicans and Trinidadians have at their disposal and make use of to address each other. A particular focus will be on variation in the speakers’ address behaviour with regard to their sex, age, social class, ethnicity, and regional background. The study draws both on data from a self-compiled corpus of postcolonial Jamaican and Trinidadian literary works, and on questionnaire and interview data collected during fieldwork. This book contributes to the ever-growing body of research in the field of nominal and pronominal address, and will be relevant to researchers interested in the fields of sociolinguistics, pragmatics, and World Englishes.

Author : Theresa Neumaier
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108838023

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Conversation in World Englishes by Theresa Neumaier Pdf

An exploration of conversation in World Englishes, focusing on turn-taking and cultural variation in Southeast Asian and Caribbean English.

Author : Andreas Jucker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108499620

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Politeness in the History of English by Andreas Jucker Pdf

From the Middle Ages up to the present day, this book traces politeness in the history of the English language.

Author : Michael G. Clyne,Catrin Norrby,Jane Warren
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521870627

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Language and Human Relations by Michael G. Clyne,Catrin Norrby,Jane Warren Pdf

Exploring practices in the family, school, the workplace, this book investigates the varied ways people choose to address one another.

Author : International Conference On Pidgin And Creole Languages. 1968. Mona, Jamaique
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Pidginization and Creolization of Languages by International Conference On Pidgin And Creole Languages. 1968. Mona, Jamaique Pdf

Author : Agnese Bresin
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027260307

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Address Variation in Sociocultural Context by Agnese Bresin Pdf

This study looks at the sociocultural context of five Italian regions and at the situational context of restaurant encounters (a sub-type of service encounters) to examine address variation in spoken Italian—with a focus on singular address pronouns tu, voi and lei. It offers a thorough examination of distance and power dynamics between waiters and customers in a wide range of restaurant types. This book marks the introduction of Italian to the field of regional pragmatic variation and it will be of interest to linguists, Italianists and researchers more broadly working on service encounters. The author offers a new dimension to the understanding of social interaction and language use in contemporary Italy, uncovering cultural and linguistic differences between even adjacent geographical areas within a modern European nation state.

Author : Irma Taavitsainen,Andreas H. Jucker
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027253484

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Diachronic Perspectives on Address Term Systems by Irma Taavitsainen,Andreas H. Jucker Pdf

Topics covered in this volume include: the system of Czech bound address forms until 1700; Spanish forms of address in the 16th century; and pronominal usage in Shakespeare.

Author : Lise Winer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027247148

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Trinidad and Tobago by Lise Winer Pdf

This volume describes the English and English Creole of Trinidad and Tobago. Sources from the early 19th through late 20th centuries are gathered from a wide range of materials: novels, editorials, advertisements, cartoons, proverbs, newspaper articles, plays, lyrics of traditional songs and calypsos, and oral interviews. Many of the older texts are now made easily accessible for the first time. The introduction includes descriptions of the historical background, the sound system, grammar and vocabulary, speech styles, social and linguistic interaction of Creole and English, and implications for education and spelling. The older sources demonstrate much closer links to other Caribbean English Creoles than previously recognized. The texts and recordings of oral interviews are invaluable resources for researchers and teachers in linguistics, Creole Studies, Caribbean studies, literature, anthropology and history.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027252467

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Creole Discourse by Anonim Pdf

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 practices have shifted considerably. Rather than limiting its scope to one "national" speech community, the discussion focusses on changes of the social meaning of Creole in various discursive fields, such as inter generational changes of Creole use in the London Diaspora, diachronic changes of Creole representation in written texts, and diachronic changes of Creole representation in translation. The study employs a discourse analytical approach drawing on linguistic models as well as Foucauldian theory.

Author : Hy V. Luong
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027250216

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Discursive Practices and Linguistic Meanings by Hy V. Luong Pdf

This is a theoretically oriented study of the pragmatics of Vietnamese person reference (kinship terms, personal pronouns, naming set and status terms). Drawing upon linguistic data from a radically different non-Western society and the seminal insights of Volosinov, Bakhtin, and Leach, it offers a critical analysis of the major theoretical premises of dominant approaches to denotation and connotation, to knowledge of language and to knowledge of the world. The study suggests that the pragmatic presuppositions of Vietnamese person-referring forms figure in the native definitions of linguistic meanings as prominently as any denotative features. It is argued that the significance of pragmatic implications should be analyzed in relation to the native speaker's conception of the world.

Author : J. N. Adams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-23
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781107354692

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Social Variation and the Latin Language by J. N. Adams Pdf

Languages show variations according to the social class of speakers and Latin was no exception, as readers of Petronius are aware. The Romance languages have traditionally been regarded as developing out of a 'language of the common people' (Vulgar Latin), but studies of modern languages demonstrate that linguistic change does not merely come, in the social sense, 'from below'. There is change from above, as prestige usages work their way down the social scale, and change may also occur across the social classes. This book is a history of many of the developments undergone by the Latin language as it changed into Romance, demonstrating the varying social levels at which change was initiated. About thirty topics are dealt with, many of them more systematically than ever before. Discussions often start in the early Republic with Plautus, and the book is as much about the literary language as about informal varieties.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Virgin Islands of the United States
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173018038937

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The Journal of the College of the Virgin Islands by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Holm
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521585813

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An Introduction to Pidgins and Creoles by John Holm Pdf

A clear and concise introduction to the study of how new languages come into being.

Author : Dagmar Deuber
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107027473

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English in the Caribbean by Dagmar Deuber Pdf

An in-depth study of English as spoken in two major anglophone Caribbean territories, Jamaica and Trinidad.

Author : Peter L. Patrick
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027248753

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Urban Jamaican Creole by Peter L. Patrick Pdf

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 chief aim is to elucidate the nature of mesolectal grammar. Creole studies have emphasized the structural integrity of basilectal varieties, leaving the status of intermediate mesolectal speech in doubt. How systematic is urban JC grammar? What patterns occur when basilectal creole constructions alternate with acrolectal English elements? Contextual constraints on choice of forms support a picture of the mesolect as a single grammar, variable yet internally-ordered, which has evolved a fine capacity to serve social functions. Drawing on a year's fieldwork in a mixed-class neighborhood of the capital city, the author (a speaker of JC) describes the speech community's history, demographics, and social geography, locating speakers in terms of their social class, occupation, education, age, sex, residence, and urban orientation. The later chapters examine a recorded corpus for linguistic variables that are phono-lexical (palatal glides), phonological (consonant cluster simplification), morphological (past-tense inflection), and syntactic (pre-verbal tense and aspect marking), using quantitative methods of analysis (including Varbrul). The Jamaican urban mesolect is portrayed as a coherent system showing stratified yet regular linguistic behavior, embedded in a well-defined speech community; despite the incorporation of forms and constraints from English, it is quintessentially creole in character.