Language Contact in the Danish West Indies: Giving Jack His Jacket

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-90-04-22540-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 338 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1540 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture

Language Contact in the Danish West Indies: Giving Jack His Jacket lays bare crucial roles played by community and resistance in the refashioning of heritage languages. Robin Sabino draws on her community relationships, her fieldwork with a last speaker, and research from a range of disciplines, to advance a revisionist history that elucidates the African linguistic resources used to create community in a land those who were transhipped did not choose and from which they could not return. In parallel fashion, the narrative locates the partial appropriation of creole features by the colony’s Euro-Caribbean community in the emergence of local identity. It also traces the replacement of Dutch and Virgin Islands Dutch Creole with their English counterparts.

Zielgruppe

Academic and public libraries in the Caribbean, Denmark, & the Netherlands; specialists in Creole Studies, Post Colonial Studies, Language Acquisition, Multilingualism, and Sociolinguistics; post graduate students in these fields, and educated laypersons in the Caribbean, Denmark, and the Netherlands.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sabino, Robin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Ethnolinguistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sprachsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachkontaktforschung
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Spracherwerb, Sprachentwicklung
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie

Über Autor(innen)

Sabino, Robin
Robin Sabino (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania) is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Auburn University interested in language contact, variation and change. Ongoing projects include exploration of variationist models, multilingualism, and development self-instructional materials for Tsalagi.