Urban Jamaican creole : variation in the mesolect / Peter L. Patrick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Patrick, Peter L.

Series:

Varieties of English around the world. General series ; v. 17.

Varieties of English around the world. General series ; v. 17

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Creole dialects, English--Variation--Jamaica.

Creole dialects, English.

Urban dialects--Jamaica--Kingston.

Urban dialects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (351 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub., c1999.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

A synchronic sociolinguistic study of Jamaican Creole (JC) as spoken in urban Kingston, this work uses variationist methods to closely investigate two key concepts of Atlantic Creole studies: the mesolect, and the creole continuum. One major concern is to describe how linguistic variation patterns with social influences. Is there a linguistic continuum? How does it correlate with social factors? The complex organization of an urbanizing Caribbean society and the highly variable nature of mesolectal speech norms and behavior present a challenge to sociolinguistic variation theory.Th

Contents:

URBAN JAMAICAN CREOLE; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; List of Maps; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER 1 Introduction; CHAPTER 2 The Urban Speech Community of Kingston, Jamaica; CHAPTER 3 Field Methods and Data Analysis; CHAPTER 4 Phonolexical Variation: Palatal Glides; CHAPTER 5 Phonological Variation: Consonant Cluster Simplification; CHAPTER 6 Creole Pre-Verbal Past-Markers; CHAPTER 7 Past-Marking by Verb Inflection; CHAPTER 8 Social Variation in the Veeton Speech Community; References; Index of Language Varieties; Index of Subjects

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-320) and indexes.

ISBN:

1-282-16279-9

9786612162794

90-272-9853-X

OCLC:

70765185