Title: Creole discourse : exploring prestige formation and change across Caribbean English-lexicon Creoles /
Authors: Muehleisen, Susanne
Publisher: J. Benjamins Pub.,
Year: 2002
Subjects: Creole dialects, English Caribbean Area Social aspects.; Sociolinguistics Caribbean Area.; Creole dialects, English Social aspects Caribbean Area.
Contents: Introduction: Creole discourse: Exploring prestige formation and change across Caribbean English-lexicon Creoles -- Ch. 1. Defining language prestige: The positioning of Creole in linguistic and social parameters -- Ch. 2. Forming language prestige: Caribbean English-lexicon Creoles as prototypical low prestige languages -- Ch. 3. Negotiating language prestige: Towards a functional/discursive framework -- Ch. 4. From speech community to discourse communities: Changing Creole representations in the urban diaspora -- Ch. 5. From badge of authenticity to voice of authority: Changing Creole representations in writing -- Ch. 6. From invisibility to register variation: Changing Creole representations in translation.