In and out of Suriname : language, mobility and identity / Edited by Eithne B. Carlin, Isabelle Leglise, Bettina Migge, and Paul B. Tjon Sie Fat.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Carlin, Eithne, editor.

Léglise, Isabelle, editor.

Migge, Bettina, editor.

Tjon Sie Fat, Paul Brendan, editor.

Series:

Caribbean Series ; volume 34.

Caribbean Series ; volume 34

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Creole dialects--Suriname.

Creole dialects.

Languages in contact--Suriname.

Languages in contact.

Linguistic change--Suriname.

Linguistic change.

Sociolinguistics--Suriname.

Sociolinguistics.

Suriname--Languages.

Suriname.

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

xiv, 290 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, the Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, [2015]

Summary:

In and Out of Suriname: Language, Mobility and Identity offers a unique multidisciplinary perspective on a multilingual society in the Caribbean and Guianan sphere. Breaking away from the view of bounded ethnicity, the authors address central theoretical issues of multilingual and multicultural societies including ethnicity as a social distinction, identity as the shifting construction of the self and others, and the role of language therein. They discuss the impact of contact and mobilities on language maintenance, expansion and change. Language, mobility and identity in Suriname are observed through the lens of the actors themselves, from the ever-mobile Americans and Maroons on the periphery of land and society through expanding urban societies enhanced by recent migration from Haiti, Brazil and China. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Looking at Language, Identity, and Mobility in Suriname / Eithne B. Carlin Carlin, Eithne B., Isabelte Légtise Légtise, Isabelte, Bettina Migge Migge, Bettina, Paul B. Tjon Sie Fat Fat, Paul B. Tjon Sie 1

2 Language Practices and Linguistic Ideologies in Suriname: Results from a School Survey / Isabelle Légtise Légtise, Isabelle, Bettina Migge Migge, Bettina 13

3 Small-scale Gold Mining and Trans-frontier Commerce on the Lawa River / Marjo de Theije Theije, Marjo de 58

4 Movement through Time in the Southern Guianas: Deconstructing the Amerindian Kaleidoscope / Eithne B. Carlin Carlin, Eithne B., Jimmy Mans Mans, Jimmy 76

5 Setting up Frontiers, Crossing the Border: The Making of the Kari'na Tyrewuju / Gérard Collomb Collomb, Gérard, Odile Renault-Lescure Renault-Lescure, Odile 101

6 Mobilities into (and out of) Konomerume (Donderskamp) / Racquel-María Yamada Yamada, Racquel-María 117

7 Maroons and the Communications Revolution in Suriname's Interior / Alex van Stipriaan Stipriaan, Alex van 139

8 On the Linguistic Consequences of Language Contact in Suriname: The Case of Convergence / Kofi Yakpo Yakpo, Kofi, Margot van den Berg Berg, Margot van den, Robert Borges Borges, Robert 164

9 They Might as Well Be Speaking Chinese: The Changing Chinese Linguistic Situation in Suriname under New Migration / Paul B. Tjon Sie Fat Fat, Paul B. Tjon Sie 196

10 The Role of Suriname in Haitian Migration to French Guiana: Identities on the Move and Border Crossing / Maud Laëtheir Laëtheir, Maud 229

11 Epilogue: The Aesthetics and Politics of Multilingualism among the Saamaka / Richard Price Price, Richard, Sally Price Price, Sally 252.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004280113

9004280111

OCLC:

889167411