Author: Society for Caribbean Linguistics. ConferencePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Creole dialects
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
5th Biennial Conference, UWI, Mona, Jamaica, Aug. 29 - Sept. 1, 1984
Author: Society for Caribbean Linguistics. ConferencePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Creole dialects
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
5th Biennial Conference, UWI, Mona, Jamaica, Aug. 29 - Sept. 1, 1984
Author: Society for Caribbean Linguistics. ConferencePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Creole dialects
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Papers Presented at the 5th Biennial Conference, Society for Caribbean Linguistics, UWI, Mona, Jamaica, Aug. 29-Sept. 1, 1984
Author: Focus on the Caribbean
Author: Manfred GörlachPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027279136
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
This collection represents an important contribution not only to creole linguistics but also to Caribbean studies and English dialectology. It contains eleven essays on the special development and present-day functions of English and Creole in the Caribbean, ranging from Central America to Guyana. Topics include the spread of English and Creole, Spanish-English contact, the reconstruction of early phonology, the semantics of syntactic markers, the impact of colonial language policies, language and class, and the speech of Rastafarians. Half of the contributors are from the Caribbean region; the others are from Europe, Africa and the United States.
Carrier Pidgin
Author: English World-wide
Author: Climate Change and Agriculture in Jamaica
Author: R. SelvarajuPublisher: Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO)
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
ctives of the study are: (i) to review current knowledge on vulnerability, past trends in climate, and impacts of climate variability and change on agriculture sector, and (ii) to explore technical and policy alternatives in order to cope with and adapt to impacts of climate variability and change more effectively. The study identified what the potential impacts are, considered what interventions are appropriate, and if and where they should occur. The scope of the study focused on broader policy directions and investment priorities in relation to climate change adaptation. The first two chapters of this book present overall background on the agriculture sector and vulnerability context. Chapter 2 specifically presents vulnerability of agro-ecosystems and food production systems in both temporal and special dimensions. Chapter 3 elaborates on the nature of climate variability and expected future changes in climate. The past trends in climate were described based on observation, analysi
Revitalizing the Jamaican Economy
Author: Inter-American Development BankPublisher: IDB
ISBN: 193100384X
Category : Jamaica
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Yearbook of International Organizations 2005/2006
Author: Publisher: De Gruyter Saur
ISBN: 9783598245213
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1428
Book Description
For the Yearbook of International Organizations, the most up-to-date and comprehensive reference to international organizations, the UIA has selected the most important 31,086 organizations from its extensive database of current and previous organizations. Yearbook provides profiles of 5,546 intergovernmental and 25,540 international non-governmental organizations active in nearly 300 countries and territories in the world today. Organization descriptions listed in Volume 1 are numbere sequentially to facilitate quick and easy cross-referencing from the other Yearbook Volumes. Users can refer to Volumes 2 and 3 to locate organizations by region or subject respectively, and comprehensive indexes are included. Naturally, the high standards of accuracy, consistency and detail set by previous editions of the Yearbook of International Organizations have been maintained for this edition.
The acrolect in Jamaica
Author: G. Alison Irvine-Sobers Publisher: Language Science Press
ISBN: 3961101140
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
An ability to speak Jamaican Standard English is the stated requirement for any managerial or frontline position in corporate Jamaica. This research looks at the phonological variation that occurs in the formal speech of this type of employee, and focuses on the specific cohort chosen to represent Jamaica in interactions with local and international clients. The variation that does emerge, shows both the presence of some features traditionally characterized as Creole and a clear avoidance of other features found in basilectal and mesolectal Jamaican. Some phonological items are prerequisites for “good English” - variables that define the user as someone who speaks English - even if other Creole variants are present. The ideologies of language and language use that Jamaican speakers hold about “good English” clearly reflect the centuries-old coexistence of English and Creole, and suggest local norms must be our starting point for discussing the acrolect.