Summary Details
| Query: |
English-based creole textbook
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| Author: | JPKIRCHNER JPKIRCHNER | |
| Submitter Email: | click here to access email | |
| Linguistic LingField(s): |
Language Documentation
Sociolinguistics |
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| Language Family: |
Northern Eastern Atlantic Creole
Southern Eastern Atlantic Creole Unclassified Atlantic Creole Western Atlantic Creole |
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| Summary: |
A while ago I posted a query as to the existence of a sort of "English creole as a second language" textbook. I had done some searching but not found anything but linguistic studies. There appeared to be no materials to help one actually learn to speak an English-based Atlantic pidgin or creole, although there are plenty for French-based creoles, like Haitian. My query elicited very few responses, and it appears there aren't any such texts available in English. I find this sad, since I consider it more useful to learn to speak a language to some degree before actually "teaching" about it in courses. Anyway, here are the few resources respondents noted: Jacques Arends: >While not a textbook, Lise Winer's (1993) 'Trinidad and Tobago' in the >'Varieties of English around the world' series (Amsterdam: Benjamins) >contains texts in Trinidadian English Creole plus cassette. Claus Pusch: >There exists an introduction to Jamaican creole, written in German and >for (preferably young) German tourists who want to travel to Jamaica and >get in touch with Creole speakers. It contains mainly phrases and short >texts for practical purposes though there is also some grammar included. >The advantage of this booklet is its moderate price and the fact that it >comes with a tape recording. Here is the bibliographical reference: >* KMMEL (Kmmel), Annette E. 1991: Patois fr Jamaica (= >Kauderwelsch Vol.59). Bielefeld: Peter Rump Verlag. ISBN 3-89416-249-X >(textbook) and ISBN 3-89416-123-X (tape). 15 DM (textbook) + 15 DM >(cassette) I was able to get this book, and one on Tok Pisin, from www.amazon.de (not www.amazon.com!). Germanists might be interested in the array of German dialect handbooks, with cassettes, that this same publisher offers. The URL for their foreign languages page is: www.reise-know-how.de/buecher/sprachindex.html They have an interesting collection of language introductions from all continents, and they take orders over the web. Thanks very much to everyone who responded to my query. James Kirchner |
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| LL Issue: | 9.1727 | |
| Date Posted: | 06-Dec-1998 | |
| Original Query: | Read original query | |
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