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[null,null,"Autore",null,"Escure Geneviève"]
[null,null,"Titolo",null,"Creole and dialect continua : standard acquisition processes in Belize and China (PRC) / / Genevieve Escure"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : J. Benjamins, , 1997"]
[{"$nulls":4},"©1997"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"1-283-32781-3"]
[{"$nulls":4},"9786613327819"]
[{"$nulls":4},"90-272-7586-6"]
[null,null,"Edizione",null,"[1st ed.]"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (318 pages)"]
[null,null,"Collana",null,"Creole language library, , 0920-9026 ; ; v. 18"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"417/.22"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Creole dialects"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Dialectology"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Language acquisition"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Sociolinguistics"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Pragmatics"]
[{"$nulls":4},"English language - Social aspects - Belize"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Chinese language - Social aspects"]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,null,"Note generali","Description based upon print version of record."]
[null,null,null,"Nota di bibliografia","Includes bibliographical references and index."]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"CREOLE AND DIALECT CONTINUA; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Acknowledgments; Table of contents; Chapter 1. Introduction: Developmental Continua; Abstract; 1. General issues in linguistic change; 2. Aspects of acquisitional studies; 2.1 Universalist explanations of acquisition; 2.2 The acquisition of second dialects; 2.3 Social attitudes and language/dialect acquisition; 2.4 Linguistic bias; 3. The linguistic analysis of nonstandard dialects; 3.1 Labovian sociolinguistics; 3.2 Language in oral discourse and pragmatics; 3.3 Theoretical framework for oral discourse"]
[{"$nulls":4},"3.4 Units of analysis; 4. Creoles and noncreoles; 4.1 Two case studies; 4.2 Outline of chapters; Endnotes; Chapter 2. The Belizean Speech Community and the Use of English; Abstract; 1. Introduction to the history of Belize; 2. Ethnolinguistic composition and census data; 2.1 Amerindians; 2.2 Creoles (Europeans, Africans, Miskitos); 2.3 Garifuna (Black Caribs); 2.4 Mestizos; 2.5 Other groups; 3. The language "]
[{"$nulls":4},"situation; 3.1 Language policy and education; 3.2 English and the Creole continuum; 3.2.1 Putative origins of Creole; 3.2.2 Lectal range; 4. Focus on the Stann Creek district"]
[{"$nulls":4},"4.1 Placencia and Seine Bight; 4. 2 Samples of Belizean texts; 4.2.1 Text 1: Basilect; 4.2.2 Text 2: Mesolect in Creole/Carib interaction; 4.2.3 Text 3: Acrolect; 4.3 Garifuna; 4.3.1 Phonological features of Garifuna; 4.3.2 Morphological features of Garifuna; 4.3.3 Carib women's language; 5. Conclusion; Endnotes; Chapter 3. Creole Acrolects as Innovations; Abstract; 1. Radical creoles, postcreoles, and decreolization; 1.1 The radical creole hypothesis; 1.2 The postcreole hypothesis; 1.3 Problems with radical creoles and postcreoles; 1.4 A dynamic view of lectal development"]
[{"$nulls":4},"1.5 Decreolization as acquisition; 2. Acrolects and standard dialects: Social aspects; 2.1 Acrolect and standard defined; 2.2 The label \"\"English\"\" in Belize; 2.3 British and American values in Belize; 2.4 Range of linguistic choices and attitudes; 2.4.1 Language attitudes and gender; 2.4.2 Language attitudes and ethnicity; 2.4.3 Acrolects as psychosocial entities; 3. Acrolects and standards: Linguistic aspects; 3.1 Acrolectal texts; 3.1.1 Text 8: Local food (Peter, 40;  Creole, Belize-City); 3.1.2 Text 9: Dugu (a Black Carib variant of voodoo) (Mark, 16;  Garifuna, Punta-Gorda)"]
[{"$nulls":4},"3.2 Linguistic strategies in acrolects; 3.3 Linguistic features; 3.3.1 Phonological features; 3.3.2 Morphological features; 3.3.3 Syntactic features; 3.3.4 Effects of basilectal influence in acrolects; 4. Conclusion; Endnotes; Chapter 4. The Interaction of Syntax and Pragmatics in Acrolects:Topic Marking; Abstract; 1. Syntax and discourse features; 1.1 The theoretical interpretation of topics; 1.2 Topic; 1.3 Topic and focus; 2. Types of topic strategies; 2.1 Topic fronting; 2.2 Topic repetition; 2.3 Topic presentation; 2.3.1 Cleft, pseudo-cleft, and existential structures; 2.3.2 Presentative particles"]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","Although there is a substantial amount of linguistic research on standard language acquisition, little attention has been given to the mechanisms underlying second dialect acquisition. Using a combination of function-based grammar and sociolinguistic methodology to analyze topic marking strategies, the unguided acquisition of a standard by speakers of nonstandard varieties is examined in two distinct linguistic and geographical situations: in a Caribbean creole situation (Belize), with special attention to the acquisition of acrolects by native speakers of basilects."]