Author: Philip BakerPublisher: Karoma Publishers, Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Isle de France Creole
Author: Philip BakerPublisher: Karoma Publishers, Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
From French to Creole
Author: Chris CornePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Creolization of Language and Culture
Author: Robert ChaudensonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134758413
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Creolization of Language and Culture is the first English edition of Robert Chaudenson's landmark text Des îles, des hommes, des langues, which has also been fully revised. . With reference to the main varieties of creole French, Chaudenson argues against the traditional account of creole genesis for a more sophisticated paradigm which takes full account of the peculiar linguistic and social factors at play in colonial societies. This is an accessible book which makes an important contribution to the study of pidgin and creole language varieties, as well as to the development of contemporary European languages outside Europe. Key features include: Analysis of current debates on the development of creoles Discussion of many aspects of human culture including music, medicine, cooking, magic and folklore Translation of all French sources from which Chaudenson quotes extensively
Pidgins and Creoles: Volume 2, Reference Survey
Author: John A. HolmPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521359405
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
An overview of the socio-historical development of some one hundred different pidgins and creoles.
An Introduction to Pidgins and Creoles
Author: John HolmPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521585811
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
A clear and concise introduction to the study of how new languages come into being.
Creating the Creole Island
Author: Megan VaughanPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822333999
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
The island of Mauritius lies in the middle of the Indian Ocean, about 550 miles east of Madagascar. Uninhabited until the arrival of colonists in the late sixteenth century, Mauritius was subsequently populated by many different peoples as successive waves of colonizers and slaves arrived at its shores. The French ruled the island from the early eighteenth century until the early nineteenth. Throughout the 1700s, ships brought men and women from France to build the colonial population and from Africa and India as slaves. In Creating the Creole Island, the distinguished historian Megan Vaughan traces the complex and contradictory social relations that developed on Mauritius under French colonial rule, paying particular attention to questions of subjectivity and agency. Combining archival research with an engaging literary style, Vaughan juxtaposes extensive analysis of court records with examinations of the logs of slave ships and of colonial correspondence and travel accounts. The result is a close reading of life on the island, power relations, colonialism, and the process of cultural creolization. Vaughan brings to light complexities of language, sexuality, and reproduction as well as the impact of the French Revolution. Illuminating a crucial period in the history of Mauritius, Creating the Creole Island is a major contribution to the historiography of slavery, colonialism, and creolization across the Indian Ocean.
From Contact to Creole and Beyond
Author: Philip BakerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Creole dialects
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages
Author: French and Creole in Louisiana
Author: Albert ValdmanPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1475752784
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Leading specialists on Cajun French and Louisiana Creole examine dialectology and sociolinguistics in this volume, the first comprehensive treatment of the linguistic situation of francophone Louisiana and its relation to the current development of French in North America outside of Quebec. Topics discussed include: language shift and code mixing speaker attitudes the role of schools and media in the maintenance of these languages and such language planning initiatives as the CODOFIL program to revive the sue of French in Louisiana. £/LIST£
The Structure and Status of Pidgins and Creoles
Author: Arthur Kean SpearsPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027252416
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Destined to become a landmark work, this book is devoted principally to a reassessment of the content, categories, boundaries, and basic assumptions of pidgin and creole studies. It includes revised and elaborated papers from meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics in addition to commissioned papers from leading scholars in the field. As a group, the papers undertake this reassessment through a reevaluation of pidgin/creole terminology and contact language typology (Section One); a requestioning of process and evolution in pidginization, creolization, and other language contact phenomena (Section Two); a reinterpretation of the sources and genesis of grammatical aspects of Saramaccan and Atlantic creoles in general (Section Three); a reconsideration of the status of languages defying received definitions of pidgins and creoles (Section Four); and analyses of aspects of grammar that shed light on the issue of what a possible creole grammar is (Section Five).