Creole Discourse : Exploring prestige formation and change across Caribbean English-lexicon Creoles.

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 formatio...

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Author / Creator: Mühleisen, Susanne.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2002.
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505 0 |a Creole Discourse Exploring prestige formation and change across Caribbean English-lexicon Creoles -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC page -- Table of contents -- Abbreviations and transcription conventions -- List of tables and figures -- Acknowledgments -- Epigraph -- Introduction Creole discourse -- Notes -- Epigraph -- Chapter 1 Defining language prestige -- Notes -- Epigraph -- Chapter 2 Forming language prestige -- Notes -- Epigraph -- Chapter 3 Negotiating language prestige -- Notes -- Epigraph -- Chapter 4 From speech community to discourse communities -- Notes -- Epigraph -- Chapter 5 From badge of authenticity to voice of authority -- Notes -- Epigraph -- Chapter 6 From invisibility to register variation -- Notes -- Epigraph -- Conclusion -- Works cited -- Appendix -- Name index -- Subject index -- The CREOLE LANGUAGE LIBRARY. 
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