Language, culture and Caribbean identity / edited by Jeannette Allsopp and John R. Rickford.
Material type: TextPublication details: Kingston, Jamaica : Canoe Press ; Cave Hill, Barbados : Centre for Caribbean Lexicography, c2012.Description: vi, 178 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:- 9789768125927 (pbk.) :
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"... a publication to commemorate the life and work of the late Richard Allsopp, Caribbean linguist extraordinaire, pioneering lexicographer and cultural researcher..." p. [1]
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction / Jeannette Allsopp and John R. Rickford. -- PART 1. CARIBBEAN ENGLISH. Whither English in the Caribbean? / Pauline Christie. -- PART 2. CREOLE LINGUISTICS IN THE CARIBBEAN. The Creole Concept in Culture Studies: A Revaluation / Mervyn C. Alleyne -- Reduplication and Language Change in Guyana / Alim Hosein -- The Future Markers in Urban and Rural Guyanese Creole / Walter F. Edwards -- The Social and the Linguistic in Sociolinguistic Variation: Mii en noo (Me ain' know) / John R. Rickford. -- PART 3. CARIBBEAN LEXICOGRAPHY. The DCEU Sets Sail from Bridgetown on Friday, 26 April 1996 - / John Simpson -- "Coolie Types" : On the Use of Photo Elicitation in Collecting and Verifying Indic Lexicon in Trinidad and Tobago / Lise Winer -- Caribbean Lexicography: A Chronicle of the Linguistic and Cultural Identity of One People / Jeannette Allsopp.
PART 4. CARIBBEAN FOLKLORE AND RELIGION. In Support of Afrogenesis: A Study of St Lucian French Creole Proverbs / Hazel Simmons- McDonald -- Mingi Mamma: Continuities and Metamorphoses in a Colonial Context / Ian E. Robertson -- Comfa / Kean Gibson. -- PART 5. CARIBBEAN LITERATURE, MUSIC AND DANCE. Narrative as Autobiography of the Folk / Velma Pollard -- The Effective Use of Literary Devices in the Calypso / Claudith Thompson -- Constructing French Creole Identity through Language, Music and Dance: A Focus on Guadeloupe and Martinique / Hélène Zamor. -- PART 6. LANGUAGE ISSUES IN CARIBBEAN SCHOOLS. A Folkloric Approach to Literacy: Addressing Semantic Confusion in a Bilingual Community / Martha F. Isaac -- Boys Will Be Boys: Gender and Bilingual Education in a Creole Language Situation / Karen Carpenter and Hubert Devonish.
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