Description:This innovative book contributes to a paradigm shift in the study of creole languages, forging new empirical frameworks for understanding language and culture in sociohistorical contact. The authors bring together archival sources to challenge dominant linguistic theory and practice and engage issues of power, positioning marginalized indigenous peoples as the center of, and vital agents in, these languages' formation and development. Students in language contact, pidgins & creoles, Caribbean studies, and postcolonial studies courses - and scholars across many disciplines - will benefit from this book and be convinced of the importance of understanding creoles and creolization.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Creoles, Revisited: Language Contact, Language Change, and Postcolonial Linguistics. To get started finding Creoles, Revisited: Language Contact, Language Change, and Postcolonial Linguistics, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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Creoles, Revisited: Language Contact, Language Change, and Postcolonial Linguistics
Description: This innovative book contributes to a paradigm shift in the study of creole languages, forging new empirical frameworks for understanding language and culture in sociohistorical contact. The authors bring together archival sources to challenge dominant linguistic theory and practice and engage issues of power, positioning marginalized indigenous peoples as the center of, and vital agents in, these languages' formation and development. Students in language contact, pidgins & creoles, Caribbean studies, and postcolonial studies courses - and scholars across many disciplines - will benefit from this book and be convinced of the importance of understanding creoles and creolization.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Creoles, Revisited: Language Contact, Language Change, and Postcolonial Linguistics. To get started finding Creoles, Revisited: Language Contact, Language Change, and Postcolonial Linguistics, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.