| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Cover; Half-title page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Sociolinguistic Fieldwork in a Racial and Political Maelstrom: Getting In, Getting On and Primary Recording Instruments and Techniques; 2 Symbol of Powerlessness and Degeneracy, or Symbol of Solidarity and Truth?: Paradoxical Attitudes toward Pidgins and Creoles; 3 "Me Tarzan, You Jane!": Adequacy, Expressiveness and the Creole Speaker; 4 The Haves and Have Nots: Sociolinguistic Surveys and the Assessment of Speaker Competence |
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5 Connections between Sociolinguistics and Pidgin-Creole Studies6 Implicational Scales; 7 Variation and the Versatility Approach to Language Arts in Schools and Societies; 8 Le Page's Theoretical and Applied Legacy in Sociolinguistics and Creole Studies; 9 The Social and the Linguistic in Sociolinguistic Variation: Mii en noo (Me ain' know); 10 A Variationist Approach to Subject-Aux Question Inversion in Bajan and Other Caribbean Creole Englishes, AAVE and Appalachian; 11 Situation: Stylistic Variation in Sociolinguistic Corpora and Theory |
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12 Language and Linguistics on Trial: Hearing Rachel Jeantel (and Other Vernacular Speakers) in the Courtroom and Beyond13 The Continuing Need for New Approaches to Social Class Analysis in Sociolinguistics; 14 Concord and Conflict in the Speech Community; 15 The Joy of Sociolinguistic Fieldwork; Afterword, with a Poem by Rachel Jeantel; Index |
| Summary |
Demonstrates how data, methods and theories from sociolinguistics and creole studies synergize and mutually benefit each subfield |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 31, 2019) |
| Subject |
Creole dialects.
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Pidgin languages.
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Sociolinguistics.
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sociolinguistics.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Creole dialects
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Pidgin languages
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Sociolinguistics
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| Genre/Form |
Creole dialects, English
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781108651417 |
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9781316091142 |
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1316091147 |
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1108651410 |
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9781107086135 |
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1107086132 |
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1107450551 |
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9781107450554 |
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