| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 222 pages, 16 pages of plates) |
| Contents |
Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; Transcription Conventions; Chapter One; Chapter Two; Chapter Three; Chapter Four; Chapter Five; Chapter Six; Chapter Seven; References; Appendix; Index |
| Summary |
In their search for personal identity, Trinidad's Douglas, the offspring of Indo-African unions, find themselves in a complex social, cultural and linguistic situation. This is reflected as much in their unclear and uncertain social positioning in a society of competing ethnic groups as in the linguistic possibilities open to them in their quotidian social interactions as they negotiate between their parent communities. Trinidadian English Creole (TEC), the mother tongue or lingua franca of the majority of the population, exhibits a lexical amalgam of donor varieties brought to the island durin |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-208) and index |
| Notes |
Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL |
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Print version record |
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Racially mixed people -- Trinidad and Tobago -- Trinidad -- Language
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Identity (Psychology) -- Trinidad and Tobago
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Sociolinguistics -- Trinidad and Tobago
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HISTORY -- Latin America -- Mexico.
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Trinidad and Tobago -- Trinidad
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| Genre/Form |
dissertations.
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Academic theses
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Academic theses.
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Thèses et écrits académiques.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781443898997 |
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1443898996 |
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