Creoles, revisited: language contact, language change, and postcolonial linguistics

"This innovative book contributes to a paradigm shift in the study of creole languages, forging new empirical frameworks for understanding language and culture in sociohistorical contact. The authors bring together archival sources to challenge dominant linguistic theory and practice and engage...

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Weitere Verfasser: Faraclas, Nicholas 1945- (HerausgeberIn), Delgado, Sally J. (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London ; New York Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2021
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Zusammenfassung:"This innovative book contributes to a paradigm shift in the study of creole languages, forging new empirical frameworks for understanding language and culture in sociohistorical contact. The authors bring together archival sources to challenge dominant linguistic theory and practice and engage issues of power, positioning marginalized indigenous peoples as the center of, and vital agents in, these languages' formation and development. Students in language contact, pidgins & creoles, Caribbean studies, and postcolonial studies courses - and scholars across many disciplines - will benefit from this book and be convinced of the importance of understanding creoles and creolization"--
Beschreibung:ix, 212 Seiten Diagramme, Karte 23 cm
ISBN:9780367410100

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