Kriolu origins -- Speaking of Kriolu -- Postcolonial Kriolu nation -- Mingling tongues and the breaching of hierarchy -- Speaking of self and family -- The language of death -- Rewording resistance -- Spreading the word -- Closing remarks -- Appendix: The sounds of the ALUPEC alphabet
Summary
<Span style=""font-style:italic;"">Dialogic Nation is a study of language use and ideology in Cape Verde. It weaves together historical, linguistic, and ethnographic research on the Cape Verdean Kriolu and its relation to Portuguese, showing how the legacies of slavery structure contemporary language practices, which in turn inform the imagining of a sovereign, creole nation
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages175-183) and index
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