Urban Panamanian English.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Laliberté, Catherine.

Series:

Varieties of English Around the World Series

Varieties of English Around the World Series ; v.G70

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Variation--Panama--Panama.

English language.

English language--Variation--Panama--Colón.

English language--Panama--Panama--Verb.

English language--Panama--Colón--Verb.

English language--Spoken English--Panama--Panama.

English language--Spoken English--Panama--Colón.

English language--Social aspects--Panama--Panama.

English language--Social aspects--Panama--Colón.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (237 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2023.

Summary:

Urban Panamanian English presents the first detailed account of the English used by the descendants of the Afro-Caribbean builders of the Panama Canal. It offers an up-to-date sociolinguistic account of the Panamanian West Indian community of Panama City and Colón.

Contents:

Intro

Urban Panamanian English

Editorial page

Title page

Copyright page

Table of contents

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1 Introduction

Notes on terminology and the use of pseudonyms

English

West Indian

Capitalization

Pseudonyms

Chapter 2 West Indians in urban Panama

2.1 Historical background

2.1.1 The construction era

2.1.2 In the Canal Zone and Panama, 1914-1999

2.1.3 Present-day West Indian Panamanian identities

2.2 Sociolinguistic situation

2.2.1 Demographics, race and language

2.2.2 Recent language policies

2.2.3 The French Antillean legacy

2.3 Previous research on Panamanian varieties

2.3.1 Bocas del Toro and Puerto Armuelles

2.3.2 Panama City and Colón

2.4 Towards a description of urban Panamanian English

Chapter 3 Language choices

3.1 Language shift: Theoretical considerations

3.2 Questionnaire design

3.3 Data collection and demographics

3.4 Language selection among bilinguals

3.4.1 Dominant language and daily use

3.4.2 Language habits in the intimate circle

3.4.3 Religion

3.4.4 School, work, neighbors, entertainment and shopping

3.4.5 Two case studies

3.4.6 Language choices in the United States

3.5 Conclusion: A portrait of transitional bilingualism

Chapter 4 Interview data

4.1 Defining the speech community

4.2 Participants

Charles

George

Enrique and Valencia

Andrea, Mary, and Naomi

Henry

Marisol

Cynthia

Benjamin

Gloria

Alex

Nora

Melva

Hilly

Velma and Gabriel

Leticia

Pam and Tito

Patricia

Francis

Diego

Mauricio

Ernesto and Felicia

Amy and Stella

4.3 Researcher position

4.4 Interview structure and settings

4.5 Linguistic makeup

4.6 Transcription and corpus

Chapter 5 The Panamanian English verb phrase

5.1 be

5.1.1 Zero copula be.

5.1.2 Present tense be leveling

5.1.3 Was/were variation

5.2 do

5.2.1 Preverbal marker did

5.2.2 Habitual does

5.3 have

5.3.1 Existential they have

5.3.2 have and time elapsed

5.4 Modal expressions

5.4.1 was to

5.4.2 able to

5.5 The expression of time reference

5.5.3 Past time reference

5.5.2 Present-tense agreement marking

5.6 Summary: The kinships of Panamanian English

Chapter 6 Verbal -s and verbal zero

6.1 The stories of verbal -s

6.1.1 Historical, sociolinguistic and pragmatic accounts

6.1.2 Non-past contexts in the Panamanian data

6.2 Coding

6.2.1 External factors

6.2.2 Language-internal factors

6.2.3 A note on Spanish [s]

6.3 Overview of the data and statistical tools

6.3.1 Frequencies for verbal -s

6.3.2 Frequencies for verbal zero

6.3.3 Random Forests

6.4 Results: -s with all persons and numbers

6.4.1 The 3rd singular

6.4.2 The 3rd plural

6.4.3 Other persons/numbers

6.4.4 Summary

6.5 Results: Zero in 3rd singular contexts

6.6 Discussion and conclusion: More than agreement

Chapter 7 Conclusion

References

Appendix

Language choice questionnaire

English version

Spanish version

Consent form

Index.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Laliberté, Catherine Urban Panamanian English

ISBN:

9789027249395

9027249393

OCLC:

1392345474