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LINGUIST List 23.2925

Tue Jul 03 2012

Books: Agency in the Emergence of Creole Languages: Faraclas (Ed)

Editor for this issue: Danniella Hornby <daniellalinguistlist.org>

Date: 02-Jul-2012
From: Paul Peranteau <paulbenjamins.com>
Subject: Agency in the Emergence of Creole Languages: Faraclas (Ed)
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Title: Agency in the Emergence of Creole Languages
Subtitle: The role of women, renegades, and people of African and indigenous descent in the emergence of the colonial era creoles
Series Title: Creole Language Library 45
Published: 2012
Publisher: John Benjamins
                http://www.benjamins.com/

Book URL: http://benjamins.com/catalog/cll.45

Editor: Nicholas Faraclas
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027273796 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 105.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027273796 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 158.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027252685 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 105.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027252685 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 158.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027252685 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 111.30
Abstract:

This book is a 'must read' for those who are looking for fresh perspectives
on the process of creolization of language. Focusing on peoples whose
agency has too often been rendered invisible in colonial and neo-colonial
history and on voices which have too often been silenced in linguistic
accounts of creole genesis, this volume considers socio-historical and
linguistic evidence that attests to the important roles played in the
emergence of the Atlantic and Pacific Creoles by marginalized populations,
such as women and people of non-European descent. In this work, the authors
amass and critically analyze a wealth of compelling data not only from
phonology, morpho-syntax, pragmatics, and descriptive, theoretical, and
applied linguistics, but also from history, economics, political science,
sociology, anthropology, and critical theory to demonstrate how
enterprising women, rebellious slaves, insubordinate sailors, and a host of
other renegades and maroons had a major impact on the creolized societies,
cultures, and languages of the colonial era Atlantic and Pacific.

Linguistic Field(s): Creole Studies
                            General Linguistics
                            Historical Linguistics
                            Language Contact
                            Sociolinguistics

Written In: English (eng)

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