Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Record:   Prev Next
Resources
More Information
Bestseller
BestsellerE-book
Author St-Hilaire, Aonghas.

Title Kwéyòl in postcolonial Saint Lucia : globalization, language planning, and national development / Aonghas St-Hilaire.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., [2011]
©2011

Item Status

Description 1 online resource (xv, 316 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Creole language library ; v. 40
Creole language library ; v. 40.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Kwéyòl in Postcolonial Saint Lucia; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Colonial background; 3 Kwéyòl cultural nationalism; 4 An Anglophone country in an English-speaking world; 5 The Francophonie and Créolophonie; 6 Government and democracy; 7 Literacy, the schools, and higher education; 8 The mass media; 9 The changing status of Kwéyòl; 10 The enduring attraction and assimilative power of English; 11 The role of French in the nation; 12 Conclusions and language planning implications; References; Index.
Summary Can historically marginalized, threatened languages be saved in the contemporary global era? In relation to the wider postcolonial world, especially the Caribbean, this book focuses on efforts to preserve and promote Lesser Antillean French Creole - Kwéyòl - as the national language of Saint Lucia and on the legacy of colonialism and impact of globalization, with which English has become the universal lingua franca, as mitigating factors undermining these efforts. It deals specifically with language planning for democratization and government; literacy, the schools and higher education; and th.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Creole dialects, French -- Saint Lucia.
Creole dialects, French.
Saint Lucia.
Language planning -- Saint Lucia.
Language planning.
Language policy -- Saint Lucia.
Language policy.
Language policy -- History.
History.
Saint Lucia -- Politics and government.
Politics and government.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: St-Hilaire, Aonghas. Kwéyòl in postcolonial Saint Lucia. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011 9789027252623 (DLC) 2011022946 (OCoLC)730906293
ISBN 9789027284648 (electronic book)
9027284644 (electronic book)
1283280469
9781283280464
9789027252623
9027252629