Jamaican Creole goes Web : sociolinguistic styling and authenticity in a digital 'Yaad' / / Andrea Moll

• Autore: Moll Andrea
• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam, Netherlands ; ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (302 p.)
• Disciplina: 427/.97292
• Soggetto topico: Creole - Dialect - Jamaica; World Wide Web - Jamaica - Languages
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Jamaican Creole goes Web
• ISBN: 90-272-6841-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910797366003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Creole language library ; ; Volume 49.