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Title Creole discourse : exploring prestige formation and change across Caribbean English-lexicon Creoles / Susanne Muehleisen.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA : J. Benjamins Pub., [2002]
©2002

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 331 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Creole language library, 0920-9026 ; v. 24
Creole language library ; v. 24. 0920-9026
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-286) and index.
Contents 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; Epigraph; Chapter 1 Defining language prestige; Epigraph; Chapter 2 Forming language prestige; Epigraph; Chapter 3 Negotiating language prestige; Epigraph; Chapter 4 From speech community to discourse communities; Epigraph; Chapter 5 From badge of authenticity to voice of authority; Epigraph.
Summary 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 formation of Caribbean English-Lexicon Creoles and subjects their classification as a (socio)linguistic type to scrutiny and critical debate. In its analysis of rich empirical data this study also demonstrates that the uses, functions and negotiations of Creole within particular social and linguistic practi.
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Subject Creole dialects, English -- Social aspects -- Caribbean Area.
Creole dialects, English -- Social aspects.
Caribbean Area.
Creole dialects, English.
Sociolinguistics -- Caribbean Area.
Sociolinguistics.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Muehleisen, Susanne.
Other Form: Print version: Creole discourse. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA : J. Benjamins Pub., ©2002 (DLC) 2002026206
ISBN 9789027296337 (electronic book)
9027296332 (electronic book)
9789027252463
9027252467
1588112977 (alkaline paper)