Author : Cefas van Rossem
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789460932618
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (326 download)
Book Synopsis The Virgin Islands Dutch Creole Textual Heritage. Philological Perspectives on Authenticity and Audience Design by : Cefas van Rossem
Download or read book The Virgin Islands Dutch Creole Textual Heritage. Philological Perspectives on Authenticity and Audience Design written by Cefas van Rossem and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creoles are new languages. We know when they emerged. Documentary sources of their early stages are therefore crucial for finding out how they emerged. However, the authenticity of these sources should be looked at critically. Virgin Islands Dutch Creole did not exist before 1672 and was mentioned for the first time in 1736. In the following decades Moravian and Lutheran missionaries started a tradition of translating Christian texts into this new language of the Danish Antilles (US Virgin Islands). On the surface of it, these texts look bookish, influenced by missionary jargon, Dutch-like, and perhaps even artificial. This dissertation studies the authenticity of Virgin Islands Dutch Creole texts from a philological perspective.