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Moll Andrea |
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Titolo |
Jamaican Creole goes Web : sociolinguistic styling and authenticity in a digital 'Yaad' / / Andrea Moll |
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Amsterdam, Netherlands ; ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (302 p.) |
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Collana |
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Creole Language Library, , 0920-9026 ; ; Volume 49 |
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Soggetti |
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Creole - Dialect - Jamaica |
World Wide Web - Jamaica - Languages |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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6.1 Folk linguistic evaluation: The outsider's view 6.2 Authentication in performance ; 7. Conclusion ; Orthography as a social practice ; 'Cyber-Jamaican' as a digital ethnolinguistic repertoire ; Sociolinguistic authentication in dialect performance ; Future research ; References; Appendix; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Large-scale migration after WWII and the prominence of Jamaican Creole in the media have promoted its use all around the globe. Deterritorialisation has entailed the contact-induced transformation of Jamaican Creole in diaspora communities and its adoption by 'crossers'. Taking sociolinguistic globalisation yet a step further, this monograph investigates the use of Jamaican Creole in a web discussion forum by combining quantitative and qualitative methodology in a sociolinguistic 'third wave' approach. In the absence of standardised orthography, one of the central aims of this study is to docu |
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