Author: Lawrence D. Carrington
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 9783110126259
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 644

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Category : Book industries and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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Author: Pramila Ramgulam Bennett
Publisher: Oxford, England : Clio Press
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 194

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Author: Amy L. Paugh
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 0857457616
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Over several generations villagers of Dominica have been shifting from Patwa, an Afro-French creole, to English, the official language. Despite government efforts at Patwa revitalization and cultural heritage tourism, rural caregivers and teachers prohibit children from speaking Patwa in their presence. Drawing on detailed ethnographic fieldwork and analysis of video-recorded social interaction in naturalistic home, school, village and urban settings, the study explores this paradox and examines the role of children and their social worlds. It offers much-needed insights into the study of language socialization, language shift and Caribbean children’s agency and social lives, contributing to the burgeoning interdisciplinary study of children’s cultures. Further, it demonstrates the critical role played by children in the transmission and transformation of linguistic practices, which ultimately may determine the fate of a language.

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Category : Creoles
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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Author: Aonghas St-Hilaire
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027284644
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 334

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Can historically marginalized, threatened languages be saved in the contemporary global era? In relation to the wider postcolonial world, especially the Caribbean, this book focuses on efforts to preserve and promote Lesser Antillean French Creole – Kwéyòl – as the national language of Saint Lucia and on the legacy of colonialism and impact of globalization, with which English has become the universal lingua franca, as mitigating factors undermining these efforts. It deals specifically with language planning for democratization and government; literacy, the schools and higher education; and the mass media. It also examines changes in the status of and attitudes toward Kwéyòl, English and French since national independence and presents language planning implications from these changes and steps already undertaken to elevate Kwéyòl. The book offers new insight into globalization and its impact on linguistic pluralism, language planning, national development, Creole languages, and cultural identity in the Caribbean.

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Category : Creole dialects
Languages : ht
Pages : 162

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Author: Philip Baker
Publisher: Hurst & Company
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Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 238

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Author: Library of Congress. Library of Congress Office, Nairobi, Kenya
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Category : Africa, Eastern
Languages : en
Pages : 558

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Number 6 includes cumulative main and added entry index for the monographs listed in that year.