Title: Language, culture and Caribbean identity /
Authors: Allsopp, Jeannette.; Rickford, John R., 1949-; University of the West Indies (Cave Hill, Barbados).
Publisher: Canoe Press ; Centre for Caribbean Lexicography,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Allsopp, Richard; Linguistics Caribbean Area.; Language and culture Caribbean Area.; Group identity Caribbean Area.; Creole dialects Caribbean Area.; Literature; Music Caribbean Area.
Abstract: "This timely and insightful publication, thought-provoking and highly educational, is dedicated to the memory of outstanding Caribbean linguist, Richard Allsopp. The contributors, many of them leading authorities on language variation in the Caribbean, explore various aspects of language, culture and identity in the region, focusing on themes that engaged Allsopp in his lifetime: Creole linguistics, Caribbean lexicography, language in folklore and religion, literature, music and dance, and language issues in Caribbean schools."--Publisher website.
Contents: Introduction / Jeannette Allsopp and John R. Rickford. -- PART 1. CARIBBEAN ENGLISH. Whither English in the Caribbean? / Pauline Christie. -- PART 2. CREOLE LINGUISTICS IN THE CARIBBEAN. The Creole Concept in Culture Studies: A Revaluation / Mervyn C. Alleyne -- Reduplication and Language Change in Guyana / Alim Hosein -- The Future Markers in Urban and Rural Guyanese Creole / Walter F. Edwards -- The Social and the Linguistic in Sociolinguistic Variation: Mii en noo (Me ain' know) / John R. Rickford. -- PART 3. CARIBBEAN LEXICOGRAPHY. The DCEU Sets Sail from Bridgetown on Friday, 26 April 1996 - / John Simpson -- "Coolie Types" : On the Use of Photo Elicitation in Collecting and Verifying Indic Lexicon in Trinidad and Tobago / Lise Winer -- Caribbean Lexicography: A Chronicle of the Linguistic and Cultural Identity of One People / Jeannette Allsopp.