African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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281 p, This book challenges an enduring paradigm among linguists, it proposes that the "limited access model" of Creole genesis is seriously flawed. (Amazon.com)
This is a sociolinguistic study of San Basilio, located on Colombia's northern or Caribbean coast and the last surviving community where a Spanish-based Creole language still exists in the whole of the Americas
Discusses several studies related to pidgin and creole languages of the Caribbean region and provides a background of its origin and development. The developments in the study of pidgins and creoles includes the evolution of studies on its similarities, variability, the clarification of the debate over the origin of the Black English and the idea about it as sociolinguistic.
Literacy education in Jamaica lacks an officially accepted policy and methodology for teaching Creole speakers. This has led to a low literacy level across the population
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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191 p., The essays in this volume consider various literary and linguistic aspects of the Francophone Caribbean at the beginning of the twenty-first century, focusing particularly on the French Overseas Departments of Martinique and Guadeloupe, and the independent islands of Haiti and Dominica. The literary chapters are devoted to new voices in the region and the Caribbean diaspora, or to recent works by established authors. Contributors offer fresh interpretations of Caribbean literary movements, and explore relevant non-literary issues such as socio-political developments which have influenced the writers of today. The linguistic chapters examine the dynamics of the respective roles of Creole and the European standard language, and consider the present viability of Creole as a literary medium. This collection will be of interest to specialists in Caribbean culture, to university students of Francophone literature, cultural studies and Creole, and to the general reader with some knowledge of the Caribbean.
