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Title In and out of Suriname : language, mobility and identity / edited by Eithne B. Carlin, Isabelle Léglise, Bettina Migge, and Paul B. Tjon Sie Fat
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2014
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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 290 pages)
Series Caribbean Series ; 34
Caribbean series (Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (Netherlands)) ; v. 34. 0921-9781
Contents Acknowledgments; List of Tables and Figures; List of Contributors; Chapter 1 Looking at Language, Identity, and Mobility in Suriname; Chapter 2 Language Practices and Linguistic Ideologies in Suriname: Results from a School Survey; Chapter 3 Small-scale Gold Mining and Trans-frontier Commerce on the Lawa River; Chapter 4 Movement through Time in the Southern Guianas: Deconstructing the Amerindian Kaleidoscope; Chapter 5 Setting up Frontiers, Crossing the Border: The Making of the Kari'na Tyrewuju; Chapter 6 Mobilities into (and out of) Konomerume (Donderskamp)
Chapter 7 Maroons and the Communications Revolution in Suriname's InteriorChapter 8 On the Linguistic Consequences of Language Contact in Suriname: The Case of Convergence; Chapter 9 They Might as Well Be Speaking Chinese: The Changing Chinese Linguistic Situation in Suriname under New Migration; Chapter 10 The Role of Suriname in Haitian Migration to French Guiana: Identities on the Move and Border Crossings; Chapter 11 Epilogue: The Aesthetics and Politics of Multilingualism among the Saamaka; References; Index
Summary This title is available online in its entirety in Open Access In and Out of Suriname: Language, Mobility and Identity offers a fresh multidisciplinary approach to multilingual Surinamese society, that breaks through the notion of bounded ethnicity enshrined in historical and ethnographic literature on Suriname
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Creole dialects -- Suriname
Languages in contact -- Suriname
Linguistic change -- Suriname
Sociolinguistics -- Suriname
History.
History: specific events and topics.
Humanities.
National liberation and independence, post-colonialism.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
HISTORY -- United States -- General.
Creole dialects
Language and languages
Languages in contact
Linguistic change
Sociolinguistics
SUBJECT Suriname -- Languages. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85130818
Subject Suriname
Form Electronic book
Author Carlin, Eithne, editor
Léglise, Isabelle, editor.
Migge, Bettina, editor.
Tjon Sie Fat, Paul Brendan, editor.
ISBN 9789004280120
900428012X