This innovative book contributes to a paradigm shift in the study of creole languages, forging new empirical frameworks for understanding language and culture in sociohistorical contact. The authors bring together archival sources to challenge dominant linguistic theory and practice and engage issues of power, positioning marginalized indigenous peoples as the center of, and vital agents in, these languages formation and development. Students in language contact, pidgins and creoles, Caribbean studies, and postcolonial studies coursesand scholars across many disciplineswill benefit from this book and be convinced of the importance of understanding creoles and creolization.
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1 Introduction: Post-Colonial Linguistics and Post-Creole Creolistics |
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2 A Subaltern Overview of Early Colonial Contact in the Afro-Atlantic: Renegades, Maroons and the Sugar Story |
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3 Sociohistorical Matrices for the Emergence of Afro-Adantic `Creoles' and other pre-1800 Colonial Era Contact Repertoires and Varieties |
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4 Renegades, Raiders, Loggers and Traders in the Early Colonial Contact Zones of the Western Caribbean |
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5 `Arawak', `Carib' and `Garifuna': Indigenous Trans-/ Pluri-linguality versus Imperial Myth-Making in the Afro-Atlantic |
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Fernando Y. Alvarado Benitez |
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6 Jamaican Maroon Spirit Language, Krio and Cryptolect |
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7 Conceptual Construal, Convergence and the Creole Lexicon |
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Nicholas G. Faraclas is a Professor in Linguistics at the University of Puerto Rico, Rķo Piedras.
Sally J. Delgado is a certified teacher and Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Puerto Rico, Cayey Campus.
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