Reimagining Creole Communities
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-37809-1 (ISBN)
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The book advocates for a ‘social turn’ in research on Creole communities, urging a (re)connection with contemporary sociolinguistic concepts to normalise Creoles and their lexifiers, such as English, as objects of study within broader paradigms. It embraces post-structuralist approaches, focusing on language ideologies, identity work, and indexicality, and capitalise on concepts such as ‘forcefields’ and ‘(semiotic) assemblages’ to analyse the complex interplay of linguistic, social, political, economic, and ideological influences. The exploration challenges binary or linear framings of the linguistic landscape in Creole communities, such as diglossia or (post-)Creole continua, which often fail to capture the fluid, messy realities of language use. Crucially, we critique the ‘myth of orderly multilingualism’, an ideology that misrepresents the diverseness of linguistic practices in Creole contexts by assuming languages can be neatly separated.
Drawing on insights from the English-official Caribbean, Guiana region, and the Pacific, this book will be a valuable resource for students and scholars in Pidgin and Creole Studies, contact linguistics, World Englishes, and sociolinguistics.
Christoph Neuenschwander is a postdoctoral researcher in the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics at University College Dublin, Ireland. Joseph T. Farquharson is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics in the Department of Language, Linguistics and Philosophy at the Mona campus of The University of the West Indies, Jamaica. Bettina Migge is Full Professor of Linguistics in the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics at University College Dublin, Ireland.
Chapter 1: Setting the stage for reimagining Creole communities, Chapter 2: Identifying Language Ideologies in Creole Contexts, Chapter 3: Exploring different perspectives on language ideology, Chapter 4: Deconstructing English in the Caribbean and beyond, Chapter 5: Researching the sociolinguistics of Creoles, Chapter 6: Rethinking empowerment in Creole communities: Applied approaches, Chapter 7: Revisiting forcefields, Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 28.4.2026 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics |
| Zusatzinfo | 2 Tables, black and white; 3 Line drawings, black and white; 3 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 453 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft |
| ISBN-10 | 1-032-37809-3 / 1032378093 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-032-37809-1 / 9781032378091 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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