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Language, Culture and Caribbean Identity

Language, Culture and Caribbean Identity

Edited by Jeannette Allsopp and John R. Rickford

220 Pages

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9789768125927
Published: August 2012

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This timely and insightful publication, thought-provoking and highly educational, is dedicated to the memory of outstanding Caribbean linguist, Richard Allsopp. The contributors, many of them leading authorities on language variation in the Caribbean, explore various aspects of language, culture and identity in the region, focusing on themes that engaged Allsopp in his lifetime: Creole linguistics, Caribbean lexicography, language in folklore and religion, literature, music and dance, and language issues in Caribbean schools.

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

Contributors

JEANNETTE ALLSOPP is retired Senior Research Fellow in Lexicography, former Director of the Centre for Caribbean Lexicography, and Lecturer in Linguistics, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados. Her many publications include Language, Culture and Caribbean Identity (co-edited with John R. Rickford) and the first Caribbean Multilingual Dictionary of Flora, Fauna and Foods.

John R. Rickford is J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor of Linguistics and the Humanities, Courtesy Professor in Education, and Pritzker Fellow in Undergraduate Studies, Stanford University, Stanford, California.

“This landmark tribute to the Caribbean’s pioneering lexicographer brings together contributions that span the encyclopaedic interests that Richard Allsopp would have pursued in his journey through Caribbean English usage. The volume is at once provocative and informative – an excellent read for both the specialist linguistic scholar and the curious layman.”
—Lawrence D. Carrington, Emeritus Professor of Creole Linguistics, University of the West Indies

“This anthology offers a refreshing and novel look at the linguistic and cultural practices of Caribbean societies, from the perspective of leading Caribbean scholars. Its coverage ranges from linguistic analysis, to lexicography, to folklore and religion, the arts and literature, and issues of language policy in education. Every contribution provides fresh insights, and together they constitute a treasure trove of new scholarship that celebrates the great legacy of the Caribbeanist par excellence, Richard Allsopp. The book will be compulsory reading for all students of the Caribbean.”
—Donald Winford, Professor of Linguistics, Ohio State University, and Editor, Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages

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