Jamaican Creole goes Web : sociolinguistic styling and authenticity in a digital 'Yaad' / Andrea Moll.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moll, Andrea, author.

Series:

Creole language library ; Volume 49.

Creole Language Library, 0920-9026 ; Volume 49

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Creole--Dialect--Jamaica.

Creole.

World Wide Web--Jamaica--Languages.

World Wide Web.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (302 p.)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Large-scale migration after WWII and the prominence of Jamaican Creole in the media have promoted its use all around the globe. Deterritorialisation has entailed the contact-induced transformation of Jamaican Creole in diaspora communities and its adoption by 'crossers'. Taking sociolinguistic globalisation yet a step further, this monograph investigates the use of Jamaican Creole in a web discussion forum by combining quantitative and qualitative methodology in a sociolinguistic 'third wave' approach. In the absence of standardised orthography, one of the central aims of this study is to docu

Contents:

6.1 Folk linguistic evaluation: The outsider's view 6.2 Authentication in performance ; 7. Conclusion ; Orthography as a social practice ; 'Cyber-Jamaican' as a digital ethnolinguistic repertoire ; Sociolinguistic authentication in dialect performance ; Future research ; References; Appendix; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789027268419

902726841X

OCLC:

1491307857