LINGUIST List 26.3586

Tue Aug 11 2015

Books: Jamaican Creole Goes Web: Moll

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Date: 04-Aug-2015
From: Karin Plijnaar <karin.plijnaarbenjamins.nl>
Subject: Jamaican Creole Goes Web: Moll
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Title: Jamaican Creole Goes Web
Subtitle: Sociolinguistic styling and authenticity in a digital 'Yaad'
Series Title: Creole Language Library 49
Published: 2015
Publisher: John Benjamins
                http://www.benjamins.com/

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/cll.49

Author: Andrea Moll
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027268419 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 105.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027268419 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 158.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027268419 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 88.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027252739 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 158.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027252739 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 88.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027252739 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 111.30
Abstract:

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 document the sociolinguistic styling and grassroots (anti-) standardisation of spelling norms for Jamaican Creole in the web forum as a virtual community of practice. An analysis of individual repertoire portraits demonstrates that conventionalised spelling variants co-occur with basilectal Jamaican Creole morphosyntax in ‘Cyber-Jamaican’ as the digital ethnolinguistic repertoire of the discussion forum. The enregisterment of this ethnolinguistic repertoire is closely tied to staged performance, which establishes the link between ‘Cyber-Jamaican’ and the negotiation of sociolinguistic identity and authenticity via stance-taking.

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology
                            Sociolinguistics
                            Syntax

Subject Language(s): Creole English, Jamaican (jam)

Written In: English (eng)

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