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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816991803321

Autore

Cassidy Frederic G. <1907-2000.>

Titolo

Jamaica talk : three hundred years of the English language in Jamaica / / Frederic G. Cassidy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Kingston : , : University of the West Indies, , 2007

ISBN

1-4356-9499-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 468 pages) : map

Disciplina

427.97292

Soggetti

Language and languages - Jamaica

Creole dialects, English - Jamaica

English language - Provincialisms - Jamaica

Jamaica Languages

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

First published in 1961, Jamaica Talk is a thorough study of the English spoken in Jamaica and, although intended for the general educated reader rather than the linguistic specialist, has a foundation of sound scholarship.