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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910817900403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, PA, : J. Benjamins Pub., c2002
• ISBN: 1-282-16109-1; 9786612161094; 90-272-9633-2
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (viii, 331 pages)
• Collana: Creole language library, , 0920-9026 ; ; v. 24
• Altri autori (Persone): MuehleisenSusanne
• Disciplina: 427/.9729
• Soggetti: Creole dialects, English - Social aspects - Caribbean Area; Sociolinguistics - Caribbean Area
• 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 (p. [269]-286) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Notes -- Epigraph -- Chapter 1 Defining language prestige -- Notes -- Epigraph -- Chapter 2 Forming language prestige -- Notes -- Epigraph -- Chapter 3 Negotiating language prestige -- Notes -- Epigraph -- Chapter 4 From speech community to discourse communities -- Notes -- Epigraph -- Chapter 5 From badge of authenticity to voice of authority -- Notes -- Epigraph -- Chapter 6 From invisibility to register variation -- Notes -- Epigraph -- Conclusion -- Works cited -- Appendix -- Name index -- Subject index -- The CREOLE LANGUAGE LIBRARY.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 practices have shifted considerably. Rather than limiting its scope to one "national" speech community, the discussion focusses on changes of the social meaning of Creole in various discursive fields, such as inter generational changes of Creole use in the London Diaspora, diachronic changes of Creole representation in written texts, and diachronic changes of Creole representation in translation. The study employs a discourse analytical approach drawing on linguistic models as well as Foucauldian theory.