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London Jamaican -Jamaican Creole in London

Author : Jessica Menz
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3638948498
Total Pages : 25 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (389 download)

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Download or read book London Jamaican -Jamaican Creole in London written by Jessica Menz and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,0, University of Bayreuth (Lehrstuhl für Englische Sprachwissenschaft), course: English - based Pidgin and Creole Languages (and beyond), 7 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Dealing with linguistics, one clearly realises that language is anything else but a static subject. Actually, language finds itself in constant change and is shaped by its speakers and the situation they are in. One of the many influences that form language has always been contact with new people and different languages, which for example happened when the Britains began to explore the world and brought English to the new continents. Many different new varieties and languages developed, one of them being Jamaican Creole. Far away from Great Britain it found its niche in Jamaica, where it is spoken by many as their native language. Pidgins and Creoles are a well-explored subject in linguistics. But what happens when these languages return to the home countries of one of their root - languages? One of the classic examples is London Jamaican, spoken mostly by black immigrants and their descendants in London. In this paper I am going to outline the history and sociolinguistic situation of London Jamaican and its characteristic features regarding grammar and phonology. Also, I will describe how two extremely distinct varieties, Jamaican Creole and London English, have influenced each other and how London Jamaican functions in everyday contexts. In the early 16th century European nations began exploring the world and soon secured their newly gained territories by making them their colonies. The Caribbean Islands, including Jamaica as well, were colonized by the British, Spanish, Dutch, French and others. Together with the languages of the natives and of Africans, who came to the Caribbean as slaves, there was a strong demand for a common language to make communicatio

London Jamaican

Author : Mark Sebba
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131789717X
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book London Jamaican written by Mark Sebba and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London Jamaican provides the reader with a new perspective on African descent in London. Based on research carried out in the early 1980s, the author examines the linguistic background of the community, with special emphasis on young people of the first and second British-born generations.

Cockney and Jamaican Creole in London

Author : Sara Lorger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (781 download)

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Download or read book Cockney and Jamaican Creole in London written by Sara Lorger and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Creole Discourse

Author :
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027252463
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book Creole Discourse written by and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Language in the British Isles

Author : Peter Trudgill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521240574
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Language in the British Isles written by Peter Trudgill and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1984-05-17 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Language in Exile

Author : Barbara Lalla
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817355650
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Language in Exile written by Barbara Lalla and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2009-03-15 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An important addition to studies of the genesis and life of Jamaican Creole as well as other New World creoles such as Gulla. Highlighting the nature of the nonstandard varieties of British English dialects to which the African slaves were exposed, this work presents a refreshingly cogent view of Jamaican Creole features." --SECOL Review "The history of Jamaican Creole comes to life through this book. Scholars will analyze its texts, follow the leads it opens up, and argue about refining its interpretations for a long time to come." --Journal of Pidgin & Creole Languages "The authors are to be congratulated on this substantial contribution to our understanding of how Jamaican Creole developed. Its value lies not only in the linguistic insights of the authors but also in the rich trove of texts that they have made accessible." --English World-Wide "Provides valuable historical and demographic data and sheds light on the origins and development of Jamaican Creole. Lalla and D'Costa offer interesting insights into Creole genesis, not only through their careful mapping of the migrations from Europe and Africa, which constructed the Jamaican society but also through extensive documentation of early texts. . . . Highly valuable to linguists, historians, anthropologists, psychologists, and anyone interested in the Caribbean or in the history of mankind." --New West Indian Guide

Jamaican Creole Goes Web

Author : Andrea Moll
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 902726841X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Jamaican Creole Goes Web written by Andrea Moll and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 sociolinguistic globalisation yet a step further, this monograph investigates the use of Jamaican Creole in a web discussion forum by combining quantitative and qualitative methodology in a sociolinguistic ‘third wave’ approach. In the absence of standardised orthography, one of the central aims of this study is to document the sociolinguistic styling and grassroots (anti-) standardisation of spelling norms for Jamaican Creole in the web forum as a virtual community of practice. An analysis of individual repertoire portraits demonstrates that conventionalised spelling variants co-occur with basilectal Jamaican Creole morphosyntax in ‘Cyber-Jamaican’ as the digital ethnolinguistic repertoire of the discussion forum. The enregisterment of this ethnolinguistic repertoire is closely tied to staged performance, which establishes the link between ‘Cyber-Jamaican’ and the negotiation of sociolinguistic identity and authenticity via stance-taking.

Urban Jamaican Creole

Author : Peter L. Patrick
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027248756
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (487 download)

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Download or read book Urban Jamaican Creole written by Peter L. Patrick and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Syntax of Jamaican Creole

Author : Stephanie Durrleman
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027255105
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book The Syntax of Jamaican Creole written by Stephanie Durrleman and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an in-depth study of the overall syntax of (basilectal) Jamaican Creole, the first since Bailey (1966). The author, a Jamaican linguist, meticulously examines distributional and interpretative properties of functional morphology in Jamaican Creole (JC) from a cartographic perspective (Cinque 1999, 2002; Rizzi 1997, 2004), thus exploring to what extent the grammar of JC provides morphological manifestations of an articulate IP, CP and DP. The data considered in this work offers new evidence in favour of these enriched structural analyses, and the instances where surface orders differ from the underlying functional skeleton are accounted for in terms of movement operations. This investigation of Jamaican syntax therefore allows us to conclude that the 'poor' inflectional morphology typical of Creole languages in general and of (basilectal) Jamaican Creole in particular does not correlate with poor structural architecture. Indeed the free morphemes discussed, as well as the word order considerations that indicate syntactic movement to designated projections, serve as arguments in favour of a rich underlying functional map.

Jamaican Creole Proverbs

Author : Aleksandra R. Knapik
Publisher : Æ Academic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1683461541
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (834 download)

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Download or read book Jamaican Creole Proverbs written by Aleksandra R. Knapik and published by Æ Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12-20 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jamaican Creole, like many other contact languages, has taken its ultimate shape through the course of multi-lingual and multi-cultural influences. From the perspective of contact linguistics , this meticulous study examines Jamaican Creole proverbs in a corpus of over 1090 recorded sayings; it presents a framework of cultural changes in Jamaica accompanied by corresponding linguistic changes in its creole. The analysis clearly demonstrates that despite three centuries of extreme dominance by the British empire, Jamaicans successfully preserved the traditions of their own ancestors. Not only that. The poly-layered stimulus of various factors: geographic, cultural and, most prominently, linguistic, helped create a unique phenomenon – Jamaican creole culture. The vibrant life of the Jamaican people and their African background is best encapsulated in their proverbs, proverbs which constitute generations of wisdom passed from the 16th century and on. John R. Rickford, J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor of Linguistics and the Humanities, Stanford University The research theme of the very publication entitled Jamaican Proverbs fromthe Perspective of Contact Linguistics is a successful analysis of both linguistic and cultural contacts between English and African cultures that have been shaping the vernacular language of Jamaica. The study material consists of 1092 proverbs, all of which can be regarded as a first-hand record of sociolinguistic events that have had important influence upon the formation of the Jamaican creole language and its registers. Dr. Knapik proves beyond any reasonable doubt that the Jamaican linguistic and cultural world is a great example of a thriving microcosm which continues to incorporate various elements and can also very well serve as the basis for future research on patterns of language and culture development. (…) prof. dr hab. dr h.c. (mult.) †Jacek Fisiak

British Black English

Author : David Sutcliffe
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9780631132882
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (328 download)

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Download or read book British Black English written by David Sutcliffe and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1982 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

White Talk, Black Talk

Author : Roger Hewitt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521338240
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book White Talk, Black Talk written by Roger Hewitt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1986-10-23 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of relations between black and white adolescents in South London.

Religion and Ideology

Author : Robert Bocock
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719018404
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (184 download)

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Download or read book Religion and Ideology written by Robert Bocock and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Routledge Reader in Caribbean Literature

Author : Alison Donnell
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415120487
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Reader in Caribbean Literature written by Alison Donnell and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leo Oakley ; Evelyn O'Callaghan ; Jean Rhys ; Tom Redcam (Thomas Madcermot) ; Victor Stafford Reid ; Gordon Rohlehr ; Reinhard Sander ; Dennis Scott ; Lawrence Scott ; Karl Sealey ; Samuel Selvon ; A.J. Seymour ; P.M. Sherlock ; Rajkumari Singh ; Mikey Smith ; Henry Swanzy ; Tropica (Mary Adella Wolcott) ; John Vidal ; Derek Walcott ; A.R.F. Webber ; Sarah Lawson Welsh ; Sylvia Wynter ; Benjamin Zephaniah.

Style and Social Identities

Author : Peter Auer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110198509
Total Pages : 525 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Style and Social Identities written by Peter Auer and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-09-25 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents an interactional perspective on linguistic variability that takes into account the construction of social identities through the formation of social communicative styles. It shows that style is a useful category in bridging the gap between single parameter variation and social identity. Social positioning, i.e., finding one's place in society, is one of its motivating forces. Various aspects of the expression of stylistic features are focused on, from language choice and linguistic variation in a narrow sense to practices of social categorization, pragmatics patterns, preferences for specific communicative genres, rhetorical practices including prosodic features, and aesthetic choices and preferences for specific forms of taste (looks, clothes, music, etc.). These various features of expression are connected to multimodal stylistic indices through talk; thus, styles emerge from discourse. Styles are adapted to changing contexts, and develop in the course of social processes. The analytical perspective chosen proposes an alternative to current approaches to variability under the influence of the so-called variationist paradigm.

Redefining Regional French

Author : David Hornsby
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351551957
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Redefining Regional French written by David Hornsby and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-10-10 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study challenges the orthodox view that emergent regional varieties of French represent no more than an ephemeral dialect residue of little theoretical interest. It follows the life cycle of an obsolescent urban Picard variety, spoken in a mining town in the Pas-de-Calais, and attempts to unravel the complex reasons behind the survival of some local variants at the expense of others. Applying a sociolinguistic model developed by Peter Trudgill, it shows how the processes of levelling and simplification have driven change in a dialect contact situation, giving rise to a new, stable variety or koine. This is compared with other new urban varieties in Sweden and the UK, where different economic, social and demographic conditions have produced very different linguistic outcomes. The emergence of Regional French in the north, it is argued, may herald the start of a new diversification of French in Europe. This book will therefore interest both students of French and of language variation more generally.

Language Crisis in the Ryukyus

Author : Mark Anderson
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443873462
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Language Crisis in the Ryukyus written by Mark Anderson and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-01-12 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long denigrated as dialects of Japanese, the Ryukyuan languages are today recognized as languages in their own right. However, speakers of Ryukyuan languages have suffered from stigmatization, oppressive language policies and domination from outside the Ryukyu Archipelago. As a result, the Ryukyuan languages are now severely endangered. This volume depicts, roughly in chronological order, aspects which have led to the language crisis in the Ryukyus today. Taking account of these factors is important because endangered languages can only be maintained and revitalized on the basis of a comprehensive understanding of why these languages became endangered in the first place. The chapters of this book have been written by leading experts in Ryukyuan sociolinguistics and the scope encompasses the entire field. It sheds light on the dark side of language modernization, on a misplaced obsession with monolingualism, and on Japan’s difficulties in surmounting its invented self-image.