Jamaica talk : three hundred years of the English language in Jamaica / Frederic G. Cassidy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cassidy, Frederic G., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Provincialisms--Jamaica.

English language.

English language--Dialects--Jamaica.

Creole dialects, English--Jamaica.

Creole dialects, English.

Jamaica.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 468 pages) : map

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Jamaica talk : 300 years of the English language in Jamaica

Place of Publication:

Jamaica : University of the West Indies Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

First published in 1961, Jamaica Talk is a thorough study of the English spoken in Jamaica and, although intended for the general educated reader rather than the linguistic specialist, has a foundation of sound scholarship.

Contents:

Intro

CONTENTS

PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION

I. HISTORY, PRONUNCIATION AND GRAMMAR

CHAPTER 1. JAMAICANISMS

CHAPTER 2. SOURCES OF JAMAICA TALK

CHAPTER 3. JAMAICAN PRONUNCIATION

CHAPTER 4. JAMAICAN GRAMMAR

II. JAMAICAN VOCABULARY

CHAPTER 5. WORK AND OCCUPATIONS

CHAPTER 6. SEASONS AND PLACES: MEASUREMENTS

CHAPTER 7. PARTS OF THE BODY: BODILY CONDITIONS

CHAPTER 8. PEOPLE: RACES AND TYPES

CHAPTER 9. DOMESTIC AND SOCIAL LIFE I

CHAPTER 10. DOMESTIC AND SOCIAL LIFE II

CHAPTER 11. RELIGION, BELIEF, SUPERSTITION

CHAPTER 12. JOHN CANOE: OTHER ENTERTAINMENTS

CHAPTER 13. WILD ANIMALS

CHAPTER 14. BIRDS

CHAPTER 15. FISH

CHAPTER 16. PLANTS

CHAPTER 17. CONCLUSIONS

BOOKS, PERIODICALS, AND MANUSCRIPTS CITED

INFORMANTS

HOW TO USE THE NOTES

NOTES

APPENDIX I

APPENDIX II

WORD LIST.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 22, 2016).

ISBN:

9781435694996

1435694996

OCLC:

646844072

Publisher Number:

2027/heb34627 hdl