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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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2002. |
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| Local Note: | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Abbreviations and transcription conventions
- 2. List of tables and figures
- 3. Acknowledgments
- 4. Introduction. Creole discourse: Exploring prestige formation and change across Caribbean English-lexicon Creoles
- 5. Chapter 1. Defining language prestige: The positioning of Creole in linguistic and social parameters
- 6. Chapter 2. Forming language prestige: Caribbean English-lexicon Creoles as prototypical low prestige languages
- 7. Chapter 3. Negotiating language prestige: Towards a functional/discursive framework
- 8. Chapter 4. From speech community to discourse communities: Changing Creole representations in the urban diaspora
- 9. Chapter 5. From badge of authenticity to voice of authority: Changing Creole representations in writing
- 10. Chapter 6. From invisibility to register variation: Changing Creole representations in translation
- 11. Conclusion
- 12. Works cited
- 13. Appendix