LEADER 02630 am 22004933u 450 001 9910304145403321 005 20221206094940.0 010 $a3-96110-114-0 024 7 $a10.5281/zenodo.1306618 035 $a(CKB)4100000007389941 035 $a(OAPEN)1002621 035 $a(ScCtBLL)5850ea2a-fc93-4118-9104-a44c7ee330e6 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/27884 035 $a(PPN)231679327 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007389941 100 $a20200310h20182018 fy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmu#---auuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe acrolect in Jamaica $ethe architecture of phonological variation /$fG. Alison Irvine-Sobers 210 $aBerlin$cLanguage Science Press$d2018 210 1$aBerlin, Germany :$cLanguage Science Press,$d[2018] 210 4$dİ2018 215 $a1 online resource (iii, 190 pages) $cPDF, digital file(s) 225 1 $aStudies in Caribbean languages ;$v1 311 08$aPrint version: 9783961101153 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 330 $aAn ability to speak Jamaican Standard English is the stated requirement for any managerial or frontline position in corporate Jamaica. This research looks at the phonological variation that occurs in the formal speech of this type of employee, and focuses on the specific cohort chosen to represent Jamaica in interactions with local and international clients. The variation that does emerge, shows both the presence of some features traditionally characterized as Creole and a clear avoidance of other features found in basilectal and mesolectal Jamaican. Some phonological items are prerequisites for ?good English? - variables that define the user as someone who speaks English - even if other Creole variants are present. The ideologies of language and language use that Jamaican speakers hold about ?good English? clearly reflect the centuries-old coexistence of English and Creole, and suggest local norms must be our starting point for discussing the acrolect. 410 0$aStudies in Caribbean languages ;$v1. 606 $aEnglish language$xPhonology 606 $aLinguistics$2bicssc 607 $aJamaica$xEnglish language$xSocial aspects 610 $aLinguistics 615 0$aEnglish language$xPhonology 615 7$aLinguistics 676 $a427.97292 700 $aIrvine-Sobers$b G. Alison$0997934 801 2$bUkMaJRU 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910304145403321 996 $aThe acrolect in Jamaica$92288706 997 $aUNINA